Yirawala (c.1895 - 1976)

BARRAMUNDI, c.1960

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

34.0 x 84.0 cm (irregular)

bears inscription verso: artist’s name, title and cat. F/10, X53

Collected by the artist, Len Annois in the late 1950s whilst on a field trip in Western Arnhem Land
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 10 August 1998, lot 2 (dated as ‘c.1958’)
The Peter and Renate Nahum Collection of Aboriginal Art, London

Barramundi, illus. in Le Brun Holmes, S., Yirawala: Painter of the Dreamtime, Hodder and Stoughton, Sydney, 1992, pl. 143