LOT DETAILS

Materials:

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

Measurements:

80.71 in. (205.00 cm.) (height) by 27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Aboriginal Art Show, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 1963, titled 'Fan Palm Dance showing the dance of the sacred wallabies'~~

Literature:

Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhem Land, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, pp. 13-15~

Provenance:

Painted in the Millingimbi area, Central Arnhem Land, c. 1962~Collected by Dorothy Bennett for the Bennett-Campbell Australian Aboriginal Art Trust~Aboriginal Art Show, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 1963, catalogue No.7~The Louis Allen Collection, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, acquired from the above exhibition ~Important Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 29 June 1998, lot 85 (illus.)~Dr Reg Grundy AO, OBE and Mrs Chambers Grundy, acquired in 1998~~