Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art - 4 April 2012 | Melbourne
Lot 87
Wakartu Cory Surprise
(c.1929 - 2011)
JILJI, 2006
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
120.5 x 59.5 cm
Estimate:
$3,000 - 4,000
Lot Details
Description
Wakartu Cory Surprise
(c.1929 - 2011)
JILJI, 2006
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
120.5 x 59.5 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name and Mangkaja Arts cat. 4/06
Provenance
Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing
Short Street Gallery, Broome
Private collection, Sydney
Catalogue text
The artist states of this work: 'Jilji (sandhills) “This my brother's country. long time ago we walk around everywhere, them Jilji very big, big ones we walk through in that middle bit – Jilji not so big. Long time ago waljirri (dreamtime) people walking here everywhere. We bin living out here, make him camp out here when I was little.”'