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Lot 89: MICKEY BUNGKUNI , CIRCA 1900-1978 UNTITLED - BUSH TURKEY AND SNAKE Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

Est: $4,000 AUD - $6,000 AUD
Sotheby'sSydney, AustraliaNovember 25, 2007

Item Overview

Description

Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

Dimensions

47 by 28 cm

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Almost certainly painted in the Mowanjum community, in the West Kimberley, Western Australia in the mid 1960s
Private collection

Notes

Cf. For related examples see Berndt, R. M. and C. H. Berndt with J. Stanton, Aboriginal Australian Art, A Visual Perspective, Methuen, Australia, 1982; Stanton, J., Painting the Country, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley Region, Western Australia, The University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1989

Auction Details

Aboriginal and Oceanic Art

by
Sotheby's
November 25, 2007, 12:00 PM EST

118-122 Queen Street Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, 2025, AU