Lot 33
  • 33

YIRAWALA

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 AUD
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Description

  • Yirawala
  • UNTITLED - FEMALE FIGURE
  • Bears artist's name and further incorrect annotations on label and inscribed on the reverse
  • Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
  • 74 by 51 cm

Provenance

Painted in the 1960s
Private collection

Condition

There is slight pigment loss overall. There are holes along the bottom of the work where the lower support stick is no longer attached.
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Catalogue Note

Cf. For similar depictions of ancestral beings and spirits see Sheet-Lightning Figure and Namarrgine the Bird Man, both from the early 1970s and both in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, in Holmes, S. Le Brun, Yirawala: Painter of the Dreaming, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1994, plates 90 and 102 respectively, illus