PINKALARTA, 2005

Important Fine Art and Aboriginal Art
Sydney
30 November 2016
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KALAJU ALMA WEBOU

(c.1928 – 2009)
PINKALARTA, 2005

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

121.5 x 121.5 cm

bears inscription verso: artist’s name, date, medium, size and Short Street Gallery cat. 20050

Estimate: 
$5,000 – 7,000
Sold for $7,076 (inc. BP) in Auction 46 - 30 November 2016, Sydney
Provenance

Short Street Gallery, Broome
Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Short Street Gallery that states: 'This is Pinkalarta, my place I was born and grew up, this is my mother’s country. You know mummy mine been born there, we bush people us. It is in the Great Sandy Desert near Joanna Spring on Anna Plains Station, Western Australia. This country has lots of mayi (bush food). This paintings shows the mayi. He got him big water, good water everyone can drink him. He gone now. I been born near there near the water. Big jila (waterhole), he got him big water, good water everyone can drink him. He gone now. I lost my mummy and sister here.'