GARIMALA, 1999

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
24 March 2010
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Ginger Riley Munduwalawala

(1927 - 2002)
GARIMALA, 1999

synthetic polymer paint on Arches paper

70.0 x 51.0 cm

signed lower centre: GiNGER RiLEY inscribed verso: Alcaston Gallery cat. AK4723

Estimate: 
$8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $8,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 13 - 24 March 2010, Melbourne
Provenance

Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (stamped verso)
Private collection, Sydney
Joel Fine Art, Melbourne, 3 June 2008, lot 79
Private collection, Sydney

Catalogue text

The original certificate from Alcaston Gallery states in part: 'The white breasted sea eagle, Ngak Ngak is often shown singly or as a repeated image; he acts as a sentinel looking around Munduwalawalas mothers country. Garimala, depicted as two travelling creator snakes, travel the land around the Four Archers. The Limmen Bight River, the artists homeland Wamungu and Maria island lagoon surrounded by bark shelters occupied by the artists ancestors are all part of the artists iconography.'