MY FATHERS COUNTRY, 2007

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
85

MIRDIDINGKINGATHI JUWARNDA MRS GABORI

(c.1924 – 2015)
MY FATHERS COUNTRY, 2007

synthetic polymer paint on linen

198.0 x 102.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist’s name, titled, medium and Mornington Island Arts and Craft cat. 1905-L-SG-0207

Estimate: 
$6,000 – 8,000
Sold for $15,860 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Mornington Island Arts and Craft, Mornington Island, Queensland
Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (cat. AK13851)
Bonhams, The Laverty Collection, Sydney, 24 March 2013, lot 210 (label attached verso)
The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane

Exhibited

24th TELSTRA Awards 10th August - 18 Nov 2007 , Museum and Art Gallery of Darwin and NT, Cat No 43 Paintings from Remote Communities; Indigenous Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, Newcastle Region Art Gallery,Newcastle,5 July - 31 August 2008; Heart and soul, Laverty Collection, Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal art [AAMU], Utrecht, The Netherlands, 20 Jan 2012 - 10 June 2012.

Literature

Evans, Nicholas, The Heart of Everything: the art and artists of Mornington and Bentinck Islands, McCullock and McCullock Australian Art Books, 2008, p 71 (Illus.)

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate from Mornington Island Arts and Craft which states: ‘My painting is about my Father’s country on Bentinck Island. The name of his country is Thundi.’