FINKE VALLEY, MACDONNELL RANGE, c.1936

Two Important Private Collections: Modern / Traditional
Melbourne
8 December 2021
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ALBERT NAMATJIRA

(1902 - 1959)
FINKE VALLEY, MACDONNELL RANGE, c.1936

watercolour on paper

17.5 x 25.5 cm (sight)

signed lower right: NAMATJIRA ALBERT
bears inscription on old backing board verso: VICTORIAN / ABORIGINAL / GROUP / Miss A. N. Brown

Estimate: 
$18,000 – $24,000
Sold for $29,455 (inc. BP) in Auction 66 - 8 December 2021, Melbourne
Provenance

The Victorian Aboriginal Group, Melbourne
Miss A. N. Brown, Melbourne
Tom Mathieson Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Sydney
Menzies, Sydney, 22 March 2012, lot 131
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Albert Namatjira: Central Australian Water Colours, The Fine Art Society Gallery, Melbourne, 5 – 17 December 1938, cat. 24