PURUKAPALI, c.1955

Aboriginal Art from the Luczo Family Collection
Melbourne
19 October 2016
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LAME TOBY MUNGATOPI

(c.1920 – DECEASED)
PURUKAPALI, c.1955

natural earth pigments on carved hardwood

98.5 cm height

Estimate: 
$12,000 – 18,000
Sold for $7,320 (inc. BP) in Auction 45 - 19 October 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Created on Melville Island, in the late 1960s
Jerome Gould, Los Angeles
Private collection, USA
Sotheby's, Sydney, 20 October 2008, lot 75
The Luczo Family Collection, USA

Related works

For other carvings by the artist see Holmes, S. Le Brun, The Goddess and the Moon Man: The Sacred Art of the Tiwi Aborigines, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, pp. 34, 36, 40, 51