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Part 2: Important Aboriginal Art - 28 November 2012  |  Melbourne

Lot 161
Djambu (Sambo) Barra Barra
(c.1946 - 2005)
HUNTING STORY, 1988

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

173.0 x 333.5 cm



Estimate:
$4,000 - 6,000


Lot sold: $4,200 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Djambu (Sambo) Barra Barra
(c.1946 - 2005)
HUNTING STORY, 1988

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

173.0 x 333.5 cm

Provenance

Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, United States of America

Exhibited

Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, West Germany, 24 April – 4 July 1993; Hayward Gallery, London, 23 July – 10 October 1993; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 11 February – 23 May 1994; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 23 June – 15 August 1994 (label attached verso)

Literature

Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, West Germany, 1993, cat. 66, p. 194 (illus.)