LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Natural earth pigments on softwood, feathers (remnants only around beard) and bush gum

Measurements:

21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (height) by 5.51 in. (14.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

. Open Air: Portraits in the Landscape , National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 3 December 2008 - 1 March 2009.

Literature:

Andrew Sayers,. Open Air: Portraits in the Landscape , National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 3 December 2008 - 1 March 2009, p. 29, illus. Jennifer Isaacs, Tiwi Art/History/Culture , The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2012, p. 161, illus.

Provenance:

Executed on Bathurst or Melville Island, circa 1954. Collected by Dorothy Bennett circa 1954. Wesfarmers Limited, Perth, acquired from the above in 1989. Sotheby's,. Aboriginal and Tribal Art , Sydney, 9 November, 1997,. The Dorothy Bennett Collection of Aboriginal Art , lot 41 (AU619). Fiona Brockhoff, Melbourne.