ALAWA COUNTRY, 1999

Beyond Sacred: Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection
Sydney
8 March 2015
155

BARNEY ELLAGA

born c.1939
ALAWA COUNTRY, 1999

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

201.0 x 105.5 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name and Alcaston Gallery cat. AK5643 and A6

Estimate: 
$3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $7,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 38 - 8 March 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, purchased in April 2000

Exhibited

Barney Ellaga – All Alawa, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, 31 March – 21 April 2000, cat. 18
Paintings from Remote Communities: Indigenous Australian Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 15 December 2007 – 24 February 2008; Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales, 5 July – 31 August 2008