Important Aboriginal Art - 25 March 2009 | Melbourne
Lot 190
(MIMIKA PEOPLE, UTAKWARIVER, IRIAN JAYA) c.1980
carved from the trunk and buttress-like root of a mangrove tree, traces of white pigment
398.0 cm height
Estimate:
$3,000 - $5,000
Lot sold: $3,360 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
(MIMIKA PEOPLE, UTAKWARIVER, IRIAN JAYA) c.1980
carved from the trunk and buttress-like root of a mangrove tree, traces of white pigment
398.0 cm height
Provenance
Collected by Todd Barlin, 1986
Monumental Sculpture of West Papua, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, 2000
Private collection, Sydney