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Important Aboriginal Art - 25 March 2009  |  Melbourne

Lot 65
Margaret Baragurra
born c.1935
KALPIRTI, 2004

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

166.0 x 110.0 cm



Estimate:
$ 6,000 - 8,000




Lot Details

Description

Margaret Baragurra
born c.1935
KALPIRTI, 2004

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

166.0 x 110.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name, size, medium and Short St Gallery catalogue number 2798

Provenance

Short St Gallery, Broome
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection, Tasmania

Catalogue text

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Short St Gallery which reads, 'I was born in Kalpirti, but left this country a long time ago. It is the place of the old people, my mummy and dad's place. Kalpirti, this is where my brother and sister were born too, and where my old people died. We ate miningali (damper), bingala, warlji (bush tomato) lots of mayi here (bush food). There is lots of junbi (tall grass) in the tali (sand dunes) where binya grows (a white food that grows on the trees).'