YUWAL, 2003
84
PINCHER TALUNGA
(c.1937 – 2012)
YUWAL, 2003
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
82.0 x 55.0 cm
bears inscription verso: artist’s name and Karen Brown Gallery cat. KB1616
Estimate:
$3,000 – 4,000
Sold for $3,904 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance
Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin
Bonhams, The Laverty Collection, Sydney, 24 March 2013, lot 90 (label attached verso)
The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane
Catalogue text
This work is accompanied by a certificate from Karen Brown Gallery which states: ‘This day I learned to do my painting about my father. I used to sit and watch him do painting on the yuwal (spear). This painting shows the markings painted onto the yuwal by my father. I used to go out with my father, out bush looking for the right kind of tree to make the spear. We would collect red and white ochre from the hills to do painting on the Spear.'