Bobyin Nongah

KUNMANGGUR STORY (SPIDER AND SNAKE), c.1963

natural earth pigments on eucalpytus bark

27.0 x 70.0 cm (irregular)
43.5 x 87.0 cm (frame)

Painted at Wadeye (Port Keats), Northern Territory
Louis A. Allen, California, USA
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 29 June 1998, lot 66
The Laverty Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, edition II, Kleimeyer Industries Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2011, p. 278 (illus.)



This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery



Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
The colour pigment values remain strong and true.
There are four fine horizontal hairline surface cracks to the body of the bark support.
The work is attached to a timber backing board with plastic clips and housed in a Plexiglass box.