GRIEF, 1997

Beyond Sacred: Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection
Sydney
8 March 2015
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LORNA FENCER NAPURRURLA

(c.1925 - 2006)
GRIEF, 1997

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

83.0 x 120.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name, date, title and Warnayaka Arts Centre cat. AAI018

Estimate: 
$4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $14,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 38 - 8 March 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Warnayaka Arts Centre, Lajamanu
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, purchased in October 1997

Exhibited

Mapping our Countries, Djamu Gallery, the Australian Museum at Customs House, Circular Quay, 8 October 1999 – 27 March 2000 (listed p. 7 in exhibition catalogue)
Paintings from Remote Communities: Indigenous Australian Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 15 December 2007 – 24 February 2008; Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales, 5 July – 31 August 2008

Literature

Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, pp. 154–155 (illus.)
Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, edition II, Kleimeyer Industries Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2011, pp. 156–157 (illus.)

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.