Lot 158: NAMMERREDJE GUMALA 1926- C.1978 TWO MIMIH AND GOANNA ATTRIBUTED TO NAMMERREDJE GUMALA 1926- C.1978 MYTHICAL JABIRU FEEDING

bears artist's name Gurmila [sic] and title on label on the reverse; bears artist's name Gurmila [sic] on the reverse

33 BY 43.2CM; 35.6 BY 25.4CM (2 items in this lot).

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

Painted at Oenpelli (Gunbalanya), Western Arnhem Land
Collection of William McE. Miller, Jr, USA

Cf. A similar painting to the attributed example by Balirr Balirr Dirdi can be found in Judith Ryan, Spirit in Land: Bark paintings from Arnhem Land in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1990, pp.86-87. The work may also be by the hand of Bob Wanurr Namundja (circa 1933-deceased) as seen in A. Brody, Kunwinjku Bim: Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the Collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, pl.28