Aboriginal Art

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Jacob

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.