Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art - 18 May 2011 | Melbourne
Lot 51
Albert Namatjira
(1902 - 1959)
(i) GHOST GUM (ii) MACDONNELL RANGES
watercolour over pencil on hardwood, each with a wooden peg attached with sinew and a spinifex resin handle
72.5 and 67.0 cm length
Estimate:
$5,000 - 7,000 (2)
Lot sold: $8,400 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Albert Namatjira
(1902 - 1959)
(i) GHOST GUM (ii) MACDONNELL RANGES
watercolour over pencil on hardwood, each with a wooden peg attached with sinew and a spinifex resin handle
72.5 and 67.0 cm length
one signed lower right: ALBERT NAMATJIRA
each inscribed verso: ABORIGINAL HANDICRAFT / HERMANNSBURG / CENTRAL AUSTRALIA an
Provenance
Private collection, Melbourne