MARTUWARRA, 2012

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
122

SONIA KURARRA

born 1952
MARTUWARRA, 2012

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

118.0 x 119.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist’s name, size and Mangkaja Arts cat. 1/12

Estimate: 
$2,000 – 3,000
Sold for $3,538 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (label attached verso)
The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate from Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency which states: ‘Martuwarra (river) country, ngapa (water), kapi (fish) in the water, parlka (barramundi), one river longa billabong, big river near Nookanbah. Rocks and tree and gettim (sic) that fish that parlka (barramundi).’