Aboriginal Art
Aboriginal Art
Wanjina Makes Yams Grow Up
Auction Closed
May 23, 09:01 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jacob
working 1954
Wanjina Makes Yams Grow Up, 1954
Crayon on rice paper
19 ¾ in x 14 ⅛ in (50 cm x 36 cm)
Collected by Joseph Birdsell, UCLA Physical Anthropologist, in the Kimberley Region at Wotjalum mission, July 1954.
Thence by descent.
The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands.
Sotheby's, London, Aboriginal Art - Thomas Vroom Collection, June 10, 2015, lot 49
Private Collection
Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art (AAMU), Utrecht, Brook Andrew - Theme Park, October 17, 2008 - April 1, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art (AAMU), Utrecht, Colours of the Kimberley, January 12, 2014 - October 5, 2014
The title of this work is taken from the inscription on the reverse of the example in the South Australian Museum. A sketch by Kim Akerman of the painting is illustrated here with the transcribed annotations from the museum's example. The artist is identified as a member of the Worrorra people.