UNTITLED, 1998

Important Australian Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
30 March 2022
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PADDY NYUNKUNY BEDFORD

(c.1922 - 2007)
UNTITLED, 1998

ochres and pigments on composition board

47.5 x 74.0 cm

initialled and dated verso: PB 98
bears inscription verso: Jirrawun Arts cat. PB7983

Estimate: 
$20,000 – $30,000
Sold for $49,091 (inc. BP) in Auction 68 - 30 March 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Jirrawun Arts, Kununurra, Western Australia, cat. PB1998.01
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, acquired from the above in September 1998

Exhibited

Mapping Our Countries, Djamu Gallery, Australian Museum at Customs House, Sydney, 9 October 1999 – 27 February 2000
True Stories: Art of the East Kimberley, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 January – 27 April 2003 (label attached verso)
Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 6 December 2006 – 15 April 2007, then touring to: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 12 May – 22 July 2007; Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 11 August – 16 September 2007; University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 16 November 2007 – 1 March 2008
 

Literature

Storer, R., Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, pp. 63 (illus.), 143 (illus.)
Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia’s Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, p. 228 (illus.)
Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia’s Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, edition II, Kleimeyer Industries Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2011, p. 240 (illus.)
McDonald, E. (ed.), Volume One: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2012, p. 187 (illus.)