DJAMBAWA MARAWILI Paintings & Artwork for Sale | DJAMBAWA MARAWILI Art Value Price Guide

Mar. 22, 2023
DJAMBAWA MARAWILI, WALU, 1983
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
DJAMBAWA MARAWILI born 1953 WALU, 1983 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 207.0 x 89.0 cm bears inscription verso: artist’s name and Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka cat. 1506J and cat. 797B FW PROVENANCE Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory Private collection, Melbourne This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre which states: 'Mayawuluk (c.1937) is a descendant of the warrior Wirrpanda and mother of Wakuthi's eldest son Djambawa. Djambawa has painted her Dhudi-Djapu clans design of country that was transformed by the principal creator beings for the Dhuwa moiety - the Djaŋ 'kawu. They passed through the plains country of Yalata towards where the Dhudi-Djapu live today at Dhuruputjpi. These the Djaŋ 'kawu, two Sisters with names in this country of Ganaypa and Banyali, sang the brolga Dhan gultji as they went with their walking sticks - Wapitja. With these they dug waterholes as they went, naming, thus sanctifying them with special qualities. Today they retain these same qualities for the Yolŋu, the water and knowledge that surfaces from these wells by their actions are sung in ceremony for this country. Waŋ'kawu the sacred goanna for Djapu clans and associate Dhuwa emerged from one of these waterholes by the upper reaches of the plain, a place called Dhakarra or Walirrwan. Waŋ'kawu witnessed the first sunrise over this area to see Daŋgultji walking over the plain, waterhole to waterhole, leaving their footprints in the drying mud. The sacred clan design throughout this painting declares ownership of this country from Yalata to Dhuruputjpi for the Dhudi-Djapu. Through his mothers connection with these people Djambawa has the right to paint these designs with their permission. The ribbons of red white and yellow hatching refer to the freshwater that flows from the water holes of this area that is aflood during the wet. It has also been incorporated as Walu's (sun) first rays over this place.' © Djambawa Marawili. Licensed by Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre
Deutscher and Hackett
Aug. 23, 2022
Djambawa Marawili (born 1953) Garranali Yathikpa Mungurru, 2006
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Djambawa Marawili (born 1953) Garranali Yathikpa Mungurru, 2006 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 247.0 x 73.0cm (97 1/4 x 28 3/4in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Nov. 17, 2021
Djambawa Marawili (born 1953) Little Mapu, 2003
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Djambawa Marawili (born 1953) Little Mapu, 2003 inscribed verso: 'DJAMBAWA / 2218 - P' natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 105.0 x 58.0cm (41 5/16 x 22 13/16in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Mar. 18, 2020
DJAMBAWA MARAWILI, born 1953, BARALTJPA, 2013, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
Est: $12,000 - $15,000
DJAMBAWA MARAWILI born 1953 BARALTJPA, 2013 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark DIMENSIONS: 235.0 x 80.0 cm (irregular) PROVENANCE: Buku–Larrnggay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory (cat. 4314C) (label attached verso) Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne Maclean collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in May 2013 EXHIBITED: Djambawa Marawili AM: Master of Ceremony, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, 17 April – 11 May 2013, cat. 4 ESSAY: This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Buku–Larrnggay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala which states: ‘Baraltja is the residence of Burrut'tji (also known as Mundukul) the lightning serpent. It is an area of flood plains that drain into northern Blue Mud Bay. It is on country belonging to the Madarrpa and denotes an area of special qualities pertaining to fertility and the mixing of waters. From Madarrpa (and Dhalwaŋu clan) land freshwater spreads onto the Baraltja flood plains with the onset of the Wet. A tidal creek into the Bay flows with the freshwater flushing the brackish mix into the sea over an ever shifting sandbar (the snake manifest). Freshwater enters the tidal mud flats at Baraltja that is residence of the Lightning Snake for the Madarrpa. The lightning Snake facing upstream, upon tasting the freshwater coming down stands on his tail and by way of spitting lightning into the sky communicates with the Ŋuŋurrdulpuyŋu and his contemporaries from other associated clans. The same can be said for the other who faces towards the south towards another Madarrpa area called Guminiyawiny, Numbulwar way, producing storm fronts and boomerang shaped jet streams with its message. These events are sung with the aid of Napunda the boomerang shaped click sticks that are represented by the same shapes of the jet–steams that feather the storms front. Songs associated with Baraltja are normally intoned at the completion of men's ceremonv for the Madarroa and associate clans. Waŋupini or thunderheads are seen flicking lightning on the horizon in the deep water named Muŋurru connecting with Madarrpa ancestors of the Dhiliyalyal tribe who lived at Boway Ŋipaŋwuy further down the coast. This Ancestral kinship tie is linked over sea country as well as the land and a cycle of events that also connect by lightning wind and rain has it so. The cloud is sung as femininity and fecundity, pregnant with life–giving freshwater. So as a harpoon travels or does lightning the estates are connected spiritually in a multi directional way – both to and from, a cyclic phenomenon which is chronicled in the sacred songs that narrate these Ancestral actions over land, through the sea and ether. It is worth noting that Yolŋu 'science' portrays this energy burst as coming up from the land which is now recognised by Western science as the precursor to downward lightning 'strikes'. From this beach Ancestral Hunters on seeing Dugong took their hunting harpoon and canoe out to the sea of Yathikpa in pursuit. The hunters were lured too close to a dangerous rock by the dugong seeking shelter. The dugong here feed on the Gamata, a sea grass that is a manifestation of flames on the sea bed. Wavy ribbons of seagrass sway in the sunlit water. Fire at this sacred site boiled the water capsizing the canoe. This is sometimes called an ancestral tide and it is speculated that this is the oral tradition of an ancient tsunami which initiates death and founds existing mortuary ceremonies in the region like the sacred sand sculpture yinapunapu which is a canoe shaped space which holds the contamination of decay at bay. The sacred harpoon changed into Dhakandjali the hollow log coffin/memorial pole that floats on the seas of Yathikpa and further afield within Blue Mud Bay, its directions connecting other Yirritja clans (Maŋgalili and Dhalwaŋu) through association of kin a
Deutscher and Hackett
Dec. 03, 2019
Djambawa Marawilli (1953-) Djambatj
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
This painting shows the secular figures of Madarrpa men returning with a dugong from a successful hunt. The events that occur in the Dreaming occur in a tense that does not exist in English. This is a dimension which is simultaneously in the distant creative past, the present, and the infinite future. In this dimension any Madarrpa hunting dugong is a manifestation of the land itself. Djambawa Marrawili is a leader of Madarrpa clan, with senior ceremonial responsibilities in his community of Yirrkala and across Arnhem Land. Marawili is an artist of international standing. He was awarded an Order of Australia in 2010, participated in the 14th Istanbul Biennial in 2015 and won the National Aboriginal and TSI Art Award in 2019.
Cooee Art
Jun. 20, 2019
DJAMBAWA MARAWILI (born 1952) Baru ochre pigments on carved softwood
Est: $1,400 - $2,200
DJAMBAWA MARAWILI (born 1952) Baru ochre pigments on carved softwood 95cm (length) PROVENANCE: Buku Larrngay Mulka, Yirrkala Mr Alush Abazi Collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Tjukurrpa: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Trento, Italy, 15 October-28 November 2008 LITERATURE: Abazi, P., Tjukurrpa, Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Litografia Stela, 2008, pp.90-91 (illus.)
Leonard Joel
Jun. 04, 2019
DJAMBAWA MARAWILI (born 1952) Baru ochre pigments on carved softwood
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
DJAMBAWA MARAWILI (born 1952) Baru ochre pigments on carved softwood 95cm (length) PROVENANCE: Buku Larrngay Mulka, Yirrkala Mr Alush Abazi Collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Tjukurrpa: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Trento, Italy, 15 October-28 November 2008 LITERATURE: Abazi, P., Tjukurrpa, Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Litografia Stela, 2008, pp.90-91 (illus.)
Leonard Joel
Jul. 30, 2018
§ DJAMBAWA DJAMBAWA MARAWILI (born 1952) Little Baru 2003 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
Est: $1,800 - $2,800
§ DJAMBAWA DJAMBAWA MARAWILI (born 1952) Little Baru 2003 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 153 x 78cm PROVENANCE: Buku Larrngay Mulka, Yirrkala (label attached verso). Annandale Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso, cat.BLA190). The Collection of Milton and Alma Roxanas, Bonhams, Sydney, 11 May 2014, lot 46 Private collection, Queensland EXHIBITIONS: Young Guns: Dhangayal Marawili, Yinimala Gumana, Yilpirr Wanambi, Gunybi Ganambarr, Bandarr Wirrpanda, 8 June - 15 July 2006, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Leonard Joel