Wakartu Cory Surprise
(c.1929 - 2011)
JILJI, 2006
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
120.5 x 59.5 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name and Mangkaja Arts cat. 4/06
Estimate:
$2,500 - $3,500
Sold:
$2,400 (inc. BP)
lot details
Wakartu Cory Surprise (c.1929 - 2011)
JILJI, 2006
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
120.5 x 59.5 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name and Mangkaja Arts cat. 4/06
Provenance
Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing
Short Street Gallery, Broome
The K.D.H. Ainsworth Collection, Queensland
The artist states of this work: 'Jilji (sandhills) "This my brother's country. long time ago we walk around everywhere, them Jilji very big, big ones we walk through in that middle bit – Jilji not so big. Long time ago waljirri (dreamtime) people walking here evrywhere. we bin living out here, make him camp out here when I was little." '