Lot 44: GEORGE MUNG MUNG , CIRCA 1921-1991 FROG HOLLOW NEAR TURKEY CREEK Natural and synthetic pigments and binders with pencil on canvas

Bears artist's name, size and Waringarri Aboriginal Arts catalogue numbers S-1279 and AP:1388 and the letters BDJ on the reverse Natural and synthetic pigments and binders with pencil on canvas

100 by 80 cm

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra
Private collection

Cf. For other examples of the artist's characteristic depictions of the Kimberley landscape see Jirling the hunter, 1989, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, in Ryan, J. and K. Akerman (eds.), Images of Power: Aboriginal art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p.48, illus; and Binoowoon country, 1990, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, in Caruana, W., Aboriginal Art, World of Art Series, Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2003, p.180, plate 157, illus In this typically animated rendition of the landscape, Mung Mung has depicted elements in both plan and aerial view: the arabesques of flowing water in the upper register of the painting graphically imitate the undulating hills and limestone ridges in the lower section. The artist incorporates an image of the Rainbow Serpent in the top left indicating the presence of the ancestral forces that vivify the land

This painting is sold with documentation from Waringarri Aboriginal Arts