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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 10 April 2019  |  Sydney

Lot 52
John Mawurndjul
born 1952
BULUWANA SPIRIT FIGURE, 2002

natural earth pigments on carved hardwood

201.0 cm height



Estimate:
$5,000 – 7,000


Lot sold: $14,640 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

John Mawurndjul
born 1952
BULUWANA SPIRIT FIGURE, 2002

natural earth pigments on carved hardwood

201.0 cm height

Provenance

Maningrida Arts and Culture, Maningrida, Northern Territory (cat. 6964-02)
Private collection, Perth
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 5 October 2004, lot 107
The Harland Collection, New South Wales

Exhibited

John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 6 July – 23 September 2018; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 October 2018 – 28 January 2019

Literature

Altman, J., et al., John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2018, pp. 266 – 67 (illus.), 379