Lot 102: DAVID CORBY TJAPALTJARRI (c. 1945-1980)

BUFFALO STORY signed 'David Corby' (lower right); with Stuart Arts Centre number '1272148' (on the reverse) synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board 47.5 x 27.5 cm Painted in 1972 PROVENANCE Stuart Art Centre, consignment 14, Alice Springs Private collection, Adelaide anon, sale, Aboriginal and Tribal Art, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 9 November 1997, lot 140 EXHIBITION Benalla, Benalla Art Gallery, Desert Dreaming, 15 December 2001 - 28 February 2002 NOTES The men of the Buffalo Toten are depicted as crescent shapes on the black central shape. The masks worn at the ceremony are beside the spears represented on either side of this shape. (written on the reverse).