Lot 129: MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON , 1921-2004 BUSH MUSHROOM DREAMING Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Name: MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON , 1921-2004 BUSH MUSHROOM DREAMING Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: fialdjmdg9

Est: $60,000 AUD - $80,000 AUDSold:

Sotheby'sSydney, AustraliaOctober 20, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Dimensions

145 by 195 cm

Artist or Maker

Maggie Napangardi Watson

Provenance

Painted in 1998
Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art and a Collection of New Ireland Malaggan Sculptures, Melbourne, 29 June 2000, lot 330
Private collection

Notes

Cf. For another painting of the subject see Mushroom Dreaming, 1995, in Planella, G. (ed.), Porta Oberta al Dreamtime: Art Aborigen Contemporani d'Austràlia, 1971-2003, Fundació Caixa de Girona, Girona, Spain, 2004, p.27 and cover; see also Women's Dreaming, 1996, in Laverty, C., et al, Beyond Sacred: Recent painting from Australia's remote Aboriginal communities, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, p.87, illus.

This painting is sold with an accompanying Flinders Lane Gallery certificate

Auction Details

Aboriginal Art

Sotheby's

October 20, 2008, 06:30 PM AEST

118-122 Queen Street Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, 2025, AU

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