MARITIME CREATURES, late 1950s

Part 2: Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
26 November 2014
157

ARTIST UNKNOWN (GROOTE EYLANDT)

MARITIME CREATURES, late 1950s

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

69.5 x 44.0 cm

Estimate: 
$3,000 - 4,000
Sold for $3,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 37 - 26 November 2014, Melbourne
Provenance

Acquired by Valentine Smith (a Marine Engineer with John Bourke Shipping, supplying the Gulf area in the late 1950s) while working on vessels called Ellysana and Waiben
Private collection, Melbourne