CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE, 1950s

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
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ALBERT NAMATJIRA

(1902 – 1959)
CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE, 1950s

watercolour and varnish over pencil on hardwood spearthrower, with a wooden peg attached with sinew and a spinifex resin handle

75.0 cm length

signed lower right: ALBERT NAMATJIRA
bears inscription verso: ABORIGINAL HANDICRAFT / HERMANNSBURG / CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

Estimate: 
$2,000 – 4,000
Sold for $7,930 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, Victoria