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Important Aboriginal Works of Art - 25 May 2016  |  Melbourne

Lot 64
THE McKAY SUPERANNUATION FUND COLLECTION LOTS 64 - 85 AND LOTS 116 - 138
Barayauwa Mununggurr
born 1980
YARRINYA, 2013

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

192.0 x 75.0 cm



Estimate:
$4,000 – 6,000


Lot sold: $5,856 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Barayauwa Mununggurr
born 1980
YARRINYA, 2013

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

192.0 x 75.0 cm

bears inscription on Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts label verso: artist’s name, location and cat. 4535Q

Provenance

Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory
The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane

Exhibited

Primavera 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney, 24 September – 30 November 2014


This work is accompanied by a certificate from Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts which states: ‘Barayuwa has painted his mother’s Munyuku clan’s design, inspired by her brother, the late ritual specialist and artist Dula Nurruwutthun. It is associated with the ancestral events relating to the death of an ancestral whale called Mirinyunu on the beaches of the Munyuku saltwater estate of the Yarrinya within Blue Mud Bay.’