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Important Australian Indigenous Art - 22 March 2023  |  Melbourne

Lot 15
Maringka Baker
born 1952
KURU ALA, 2005

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

124.5 x 139.0 cm



Estimate:
$8,000 – 12,000


Lot sold: $23,318 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Maringka Baker
born 1952
KURU ALA, 2005

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

124.5 x 139.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist's name, date and Tjungu Palya cat. TPMB05007

Provenance

Tjungu Palya Artists, Nyapari, South Australia
Vivian Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Adelaide, acquired from the above in 2006

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tjungu Palya Artists which states:

Ngura tjuta, kapi piti tjuta (there are many camps and rock-­holes here). This is seven sisters country. Minyma tjuta yuuangka nyinanyi (the women are sitting inside the wind­break). The women left this country and headed to Yukula.