Rover Thomas (Joolama) (c.1926 - 1998)

YURLING, 1985

natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on plywood

86.0 x 59.0 cm

bears Waringarri Aboriginal Arts Association label verso: artist's name, title, date, descriptive notes and catalogue number BP1/1010

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra, Western Australia
Private collection, Darwin
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 9 July 2001, lot 108
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

The label verso states: ‘Dreamtime dead people were thrown into a hole on top of a big hill near Texas Downs Station. The hill is called Yurling’.

This painting was originally purchased from the Waringarri Arts Centre Kununurra in 1985 by a worker for the Kimberley Land Council and Warmun Community when he was conducting interviews at the Arts Centre whilst compiling information for a book.