WAWARRI, 1999

The Laverty Collection - Part III
Sydney
5 April 2017
48

JANANGOO BUTCHER CHEREL

(c.1920 – 2009)
WAWARRI, 1999

synthetic polymer paint on Velin Arches paper

65.0 x 50.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist’s name and Mangkaja Arts cat. WP 053/99

Estimate: 
$3,000 – 4,000
Sold for $7,930 (inc. BP) in Auction 48 - 5 April 2017, Sydney
Provenance

Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing
Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, acquired from the above in September 1999

Exhibited

Janangoo Butcher Cherel, Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney, 26 August – 23 September 1999, cat. 10

Literature

Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia’s Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, p. 186 (illus.)