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Important Fine Art and Aboriginal Art - 30 November 2016  |  Sydney

Lot 111
Kalaju Alma Webou
(c.1928 – 2009)
PINKALARTA, 2005

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

121.5 x 121.5 cm



Estimate:
$5,000 – 7,000


Lot sold: $7,076 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Kalaju Alma Webou
(c.1928 – 2009)
PINKALARTA, 2005

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

121.5 x 121.5 cm

bears inscription verso: artist’s name, date, medium, size and Short Street Gallery cat. 20050

Provenance

Short Street Gallery, Broome
Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Short Street Gallery that states: 'This is Pinkalarta, my place I was born and grew up, this is my mother’s country. You know mummy mine been born there, we bush people us. It is in the Great Sandy Desert near Joanna Spring on Anna Plains Station, Western Australia. This country has lots of mayi (bush food). This paintings shows the mayi. He got him big water, good water everyone can drink him. He gone now. I been born near there near the water. Big jila (waterhole), he got him big water, good water everyone can drink him. He gone now. I lost my mummy and sister here.'