BARRAMUNDI, c.1960
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YIRAWALA
(c.1895 – 1976)
BARRAMUNDI, c.1960
natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
34.0 x 84.0 cm (irregular)
bears inscription verso: artist’s name, title and cat. F/10, X53
Estimate:
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $9,818 (inc. BP) in Auction 61 - 15 July 2020, Melbourne
Provenance
Collected by the artist, Len Annois in the late 1950s whilst on a field trip in Western Arnhem Land
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 10 August 1998, lot 2 (dated as ‘c.1958’)
The Peter and Renate Nahum Collection of Aboriginal Art, London
Related works
Barramundi, illus. in Le Brun Holmes, S., Yirawala: Painter of the Dreamtime, Hodder and Stoughton, Sydney, 1992, pl. 143