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Aboriginal Art from the Luczo Family Collection - 19 October 2016  |  Melbourne

Lot 16
TIWI ART, LOTS 16–27
Enraeld Djulabinyana Munkara
(1882 – 1968)
DOUBLE-SIDED FIGURE REPRESENTING BIMA AND PURUKAPALI, c.1955

natural earth pigments on carved ironwood

51.0 cm height



Estimate:
$20,000 – 30,000


Lot sold: $29,280 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Enraeld Djulabinyana Munkara
(1882 – 1968)
DOUBLE-SIDED FIGURE REPRESENTING BIMA AND PURUKAPALI, c.1955

natural earth pigments on carved ironwood

51.0 cm height

Provenance

Created on Melville Island, c.1955
Dorothy Bennett Collection, Darwin
The Wesfarmers Collection, Perth
Sotheby's, Sydney, November 1997, lot 39 (illus. catalogue cover)
Private collection, Sydney
AP Bond Gallery, Adelaide
The Luczo Family Collection, USA