PRIME MINISTER GOUGH WHITLAM POURS SOIL INTO THE HANDS OF TRADITIONAL LANDOWNER, 1975/2021

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
3 May 2023
91

MERVYN BISHOP

born 1945
PRIME MINISTER GOUGH WHITLAM POURS SOIL INTO THE HANDS OF TRADITIONAL LANDOWNER, 1975/2021

digital inkjet print

60.0 x 60.0 cm (image)

edition: A/P aside from an edition of 25

signed below image lower right: Mervyn Bishop
dated and inscribed with title below image lower right:
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into the hand of /
Traditional Gurindji Land Owner, Vincent Lingiari / Wattie Creek – Northern Territory 1975 / 2021 

Estimate: 
$18,000 – $25,000
Sold for $34,364 (inc. BP) in Auction 74 - 3 May 2023, Melbourne
Provenance

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)
Company collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Australian Postwar Photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 June – 8 August 2004 (another example)
Half Light Portraits from Black Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 November 2008 – 22 February 2009 (another example)
The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 March – 8 June 2015; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 4 July – 11 October 2015 (another example)

Literature

Annear, J., The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015, pp. 6 (illus. another example), 50, 292