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  • MICK GUBARGU (1925 - 2008) (Language group: Kunwinjku) Untitled - Lorrkon 1988 natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on hollow...
    Mar. 27, 2025

    MICK GUBARGU (1925 - 2008) (Language group: Kunwinjku) Untitled - Lorrkon 1988 natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on hollow...

    Est: $1,000 - $3,000

    MICK GUBARGU (1925 - 2008) (Language group: Kunwinjku) Untitled - Lorrkon 1988 natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on hollow log 105 x 23 x 26cm PROVENANCE: The Artist, painted in the Maningrida region, Northern Territory Dreamtime Gallery, Western Australia, cat. no. 35/3 (accompanied by a copy of the certificate of authenticity) Private collection, Western Australia OTHER NOTES: © Mick Gubargu/Copyright Agency, 2025

    Leonard Joel
  • MICK GUBARGU (1925 - 2008) (Language group: Kunwinjku) Untitled - Lorrkon 1988 natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on hollow...
    Mar. 18, 2025

    MICK GUBARGU (1925 - 2008) (Language group: Kunwinjku) Untitled - Lorrkon 1988 natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on hollow...

    Est: $2,500 - $3,500

    MICK GUBARGU (1925 - 2008) (Language group: Kunwinjku) Untitled - Lorrkon 1988 natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on hollow log 105 x 23 x 26cm PROVENANCE: The Artist, painted in the Maningrida region, Northern Territory Dreamtime Gallery, Western Australia, cat. no. 35/3 (accompanied by a copy of the certificate of authenticity) Private collection, Western Australia OTHER NOTES: © Mick Gubargu/Copyright Agency, 2025

    Leonard Joel
  • MICK GUBARGU (KUBARKKU), (c1922 - 2008), Saltwater Turtle, natural pigments on bark, 90 x 58 cm. (35.4 x 22.8 in.)
    Nov. 21, 2024

    MICK GUBARGU (KUBARKKU), (c1922 - 2008), Saltwater Turtle, natural pigments on bark, 90 x 58 cm. (35.4 x 22.8 in.)

    Est: $4,000 - $6,000

    MICK GUBARGU (KUBARKKU) (c1922 - 2008) Saltwater Turtle natural pigments on bark labelled verso

    Lawsons
  • MICK KUBARKKU, NAMARRKON, LIGHTNING SPIRIT, 1981
    Mar. 22, 2023

    MICK KUBARKKU, NAMARRKON, LIGHTNING SPIRIT, 1981

    Est: $10,000 - $15,000

    MICK KUBARKKU (c.1922 - 2008) NAMARRKON, LIGHTNING SPIRIT, 1981 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 84.0 x 70.0 cm (irregular) PROVENANCE Maningrida Arts and Culture, Maningrida, Northern Territory (cat. K509/OAR) Private collection, Perth RELATED WORK Namarrkon, lightning spirit, 1973, earth pigments on eucalyptus bark, 61.1 x 50.1 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, illus. in Ryan, J., (ed), LAND MARKS, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006, p. 27 © Mick Kubarkku/Copyright Agency 2023

    Deutscher and Hackett
  • MICK KUBARKKU, DIBDIB SPIRIT,
    May. 17, 2022

    MICK KUBARKKU, DIBDIB SPIRIT,

    Est: $3,000 - $4,000

    MICK KUBARKKU (c.1922 - 2008) DIBDIB SPIRIT natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 122.0 x 38.5 cm (irregular) bears inscription verso: artist's name and Maningrida Arts and Culture cat. 907/004 PROVENANCE Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory (label attached verso) Private collection Bonhams and Goodman, Sydney 8 May 2007, Lot 624 Private collection, Melbourne © Mick Kubarkku/Copyright Agency 2021 This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

    Deutscher and Hackett
  • MICK KUBARKKU, DIBDIB SPIRIT, 1998
    May. 11, 2021

    MICK KUBARKKU, DIBDIB SPIRIT, 1998

    Est: $6,000 - $8,000

    MICK KUBARKKU (c.1922 – 2008) DIBDIB SPIRIT, 1998 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 111.0 x 40.0 cm (irregular) 130.0 x 60.0 cm (frame) PROVENANCE Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory (cat. 8000) Tineriba Fine Arts, Hahndorf, South Australia Private collection, South Australia Bonhams and Goodman, Sydney, 17 November 2004, lot 138 Private collection, Sydney Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne 24 March 2010, lot 41 Private collection, South Australia This item is located at our Melbourne Gallery © Mick Kubarkku/Copyright Agency, 2021

    Deutscher and Hackett
  • Mick Kubarkku (Gubargu) (b.c.1922) Western Arnhem Land Ngalyod the Rainbow Serpent, with Crocodile Head c.1994 Earth pigments & ochr...
    Sep. 14, 2020

    Mick Kubarkku (Gubargu) (b.c.1922) Western Arnhem Land Ngalyod the Rainbow Serpent, with Crocodile Head c.1994 Earth pigments & ochr...

    Est: $4,500 - $6,500

    Mick Kubarkku (Gubargu) (b.c.1922) Western Arnhem Land Ngalyod the Rainbow Serpent, with Crocodile Head c.1994 Earth pigments & ochres on bark 154 x 66 cm PROVENANCE: The Darwin Gallery Certificate of Purchase Catalogue no. EAB 1040 LITERATURE: Ngalyod the Rainbow Serpent, is the most powerful of the serpents in Western Arnhem Land. He has a sister, Ngalkunburriyaymi, & his mother, Jingana or the Earth Mother, who created sacred sites in the Dreamtime, they are not as important as Ngalyod. He Lives in a sacred waterhole in a rocky gorge during the dry season, at the beginning of the wet he sends vapour into the sky to form storm clouds, on which he sits, growling & sends thunder echoing across the heavens. His forked toungue makes zigzag lightning, piercing th eheavy clouds to bring down torrential rain. In sacred ceremonies Ngalyod is given due honour & respect, so he will be happy & continue to keep the balance of the seasons. If he is angered he may withhold rain in the wet season & bring down floods in the dry. In his early barks, Kubarkku restricted himself to the dotted infill reminiscent of rock paintings. However, later he incorporated his father's 'rarrk' cross-hatching from the Mardayin ceremony into a rugged and individual painting style. Gowan Armstrong, Maningrida's chaplain, recalled that 'the ever cheerful Mick Gubargu (sic) began to bring his crocodile paintings from about 1970s onwards' (cited in Altman 2004: 176). These were accompanied by barks depicting other totemic animals including barramundi, turtle, kangaroo & echidna. The crosshatching that adorned these & other totemic figures at the time was not the meticulous geometric rarrk, common throughout Arnhem Land. It was less refined than that of many of his contemporaries, having a similarity in style to the rock markings found in the country near Kubumi, where he lived during the most artistically productive period of his life. His subject matter & stories were a direct continuation of that cave-art tradition executed with a raw, rough, and direct quality, in which the use of white dotted areas on black is a stylistic marker. Large, uneven dots were often applied to the heads, hands and feet of his figures as well as the internal divisions. Kubarkku's rarrk typically comprised horizontal, vertical or sloping bands of red ochre, relieved by patches of black dots on white. Cooee Art The artist's works are included in the Collection of the NGA, NGV, Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory OTHER NOTES: Condition: Good condition

    Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
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