BULUWANA SPIRIT FIGURE, 2002

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
10 April 2019
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JOHN MAWURNDJUL

born 1952
BULUWANA SPIRIT FIGURE, 2002

natural earth pigments on carved hardwood

201.0 cm height

Estimate: 
$5,000 – 7,000
Sold for $14,640 (inc. BP) in Auction 57 - 10 April 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Maningrida Arts and Culture, Maningrida, Northern Territory (cat. 6964-02)
Private collection, Perth
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 5 October 2004, lot 107
The Harland Collection, New South Wales

Exhibited

John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 6 July – 23 September 2018; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 October 2018 – 28 January 2019

Literature

Altman, J., et al., John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2018, pp. 266 – 67 (illus.), 379