Lot 50
  • 50

Banjo Ka’du Working 1953

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Untitled, Tribal Boundaries
  • Crayon on rice paper
  • 55cm by 35cm
Crayon on rice paper

Provenance

Collected on the University of California Los Angeles expedition to West Australia, 1953 – 1954, by Dr Joseph Birdsell, UCLA Physical Anthropologist, at the Derby Leprosarium in the Kimberley region on 29 August, 1953
Thence by descent
The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands

Exhibited

Kleur Bekennen/Show your Colours, AAMU, Utrecht, 23 April 2009 - 27 September 2009
Country to Coast: Colours of the Kimberley, AAMU, Utrecht, 12 January 2014 - 5 October 2014

Catalogue Note

Cf. Takeo Uchiyama et al. (eds), Crossroads – Towards a New Reality, Aboriginal Art From Australia, National Museum of Art, Kyoto, 1992, pp.78-81, fig.52, for an illustration of the South Australian Museum’s version of this work, together with discussion of related drawings.

There is a copy of this drawing in the South Australian Museum, which identifies the artist name, place and date of execution.  The reverse of the drawing is inscribed, ‘Drawing by Karama man of Fitzmaurice River, Banjo Ka:du, Leprosarium 29 Aug 53’