Albert Namatjira
(1902 - 1959)
FINKE VALLEY, MACDONNELL RANGE, c.1936
watercolour on paper
17.5 x 25.5 cm (sight)
signed lower right: NAMATJIRA ALBERT
bears inscription on old backing board verso: VICTORIAN / ABORIGINAL / GROUP / Miss A. N. Brown
Estimate:
$18,000 - $24,000
Sold:
$29,455 (inc. BP)
© Namatjira Legacy Trust/Copyright Agency 2021
lot details
Albert Namatjira (1902 - 1959)
FINKE VALLEY, MACDONNELL RANGE, c.1936
watercolour on paper
17.5 x 25.5 cm (sight)
signed lower right: NAMATJIRA ALBERT
bears inscription on old backing board verso: VICTORIAN / ABORIGINAL / GROUP / Miss A. N. Brown
bears inscription on old backing board verso: VICTORIAN / ABORIGINAL / GROUP / Miss A. N. Brown
Provenance
The Victorian Aboriginal Group, Melbourne
Miss A. N. Brown, Melbourne
Tom Mathieson Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Sydney
Menzies, Sydney, 22 March 2012, lot 131
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Albert Namatjira: Central Australian Water Colours, The Fine Art Society Gallery, Melbourne, 5 – 17 December 1938, cat. 24