Lot 72: TOM DJAWA, (1905 – 1980), UNTITLED (CEREMONIAL MOKUY FIGURE), c.1960, natural earth pigments on carved softwood

TOM DJAWA, (1905 – 1980), UNTITLED (CEREMONIAL MOKUY FIGURE), c.1960, natural earth pigments on carved softwood

DIMENSIONS:
100.0 cm height

PROVENANCE:
Created at Milingimbi, Central Arnhem Land
Private collection, Sydney
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 9 July 2001, lot 60
Private collection
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 20 October 2008, lot 184
The Luczo Family Collection, USA

RELATED WORK:
Mokuy, c.1960, illus. in Luthi, B. (ed.), Aratjara, Art of the First Australians: Traditional and Contemporary Works by Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Artists, DuMont Publishing, Cologne, 1993, pl. 31, p. 160
Untitled, c.1695, in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, illus. in O’Ferrall, M.A., Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhem Land in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990, pl. 88, p. 74