Mount Gillen, MacDonnell Ranges, 1956

Important Australian Indigenous Art
Melbourne
25 March 2026
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Albert Namatjira

(1902 - 1959)
Mount Gillen, MacDonnell Ranges, 1956

watercolour on paper on card

28.0 x 39.5 cm

signed lower right: ALBERT NAMATJIRA
bears inscription on old label verso: Mount Gillan [sic] - MacDonnell Range [sic], "Central Australia" / Original watercolour, by Albert Namatjira (Aranta [sic] Tribe) / Painted for Pearl Stephens, Oct 21st to Oct 28th 1956. / near Albert Namatjira Camp - consisting of a / shelter made of boughs of gums-, his wife, / sons, grandchildren shared the camp. 

Estimate: 
$30,000 – $40,000
Provenance

​Pearl Stephens, Western Australia, acquired directly from the artist in 1956
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney