LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

Measurements:

25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (height) by 19.69 in. (50.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Bears labels on the reverse, identifying the artist as "bush native of Miella tribe", together with an explanation of the imagery and a certificate of authenticity from Dorothy Bennett.

Exhibited:

. The Awakening Dream, Aboriginal Art From Australia's Far North , Helen Day Art Centre, Stowe, Vermont, 1995.

Literature:

. The Awakening Dream, Aboriginal Art From Australia's Far North , Helen Day Art Centre, Stowe, Vermont, pl.2, illus.

Provenance:

Painted in Western Arnhem Land, circa 1963. Collected by Dorothy Bennett in Western Arnhem Land, most likely between 1962 and 1964 . Tom and Adi Barnett, Vermont, USA . The Barnett Collection at Columbia University . Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art , Melbourne, 30 June, 1997, lot 94 (AU612) . Fiona Brockhoff, Melbourne .