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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 28 August 2013  |  Sydney

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Lot 127
Wolfgang Sievers
(1913 - 2007)
THE BLACK MADONNA, 1957

silver gelatin photograph

40.0 x 50.0 cm


Estimate:
$2,500 - 3,500

Private sale

Lot Details

Description
Wolfgang Sievers
(1913 - 2007)
THE BLACK MADONNA, 1957

silver gelatin photograph

40.0 x 50.0 cm

signed, dated, titled and inscribed on paper label verso: BLACK MADONNA / WEIPA METHODIST MISSION STATION / CAPE YORK, NORTH QUEENSLAND / 1957 / Wolfgang Sievers

Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne

Literature

Calado, J., The Photography of Wolfgang Sievers 1933–1993: Life Line, Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal, 2000, cat. 106, pl. 106, pp. 163, 246 (illus., another example)

Related works

The “Black Madonna”, Aboriginal mother and child, Methodist Mission Station, Weipa, Cape York, North Queensland, 1957, silver gelatin photograph, 24.4 x 19.2 cm, collection of the National Library of Australia, Canberra, illus. in Ennis, H., Wolfgang Sievers / Helen Ennis, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2011, p. 47