Charlie (Newili) Brinken (1910 - 1993)

TWO CROCODILES, c.1960

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

23.5 x 69.0 cm (irregular)
43.5 x 88.0 cm (frame)

Painted at Wadeye (Port Keats), Northern Territory
Private collection, New South Wales
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, lot 521
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. 279 (illus.)

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
There are old minor drying cracks to the tail of the top crocodile, a fine 10 cm horizontal hairline surface crack to lower right edge and very minor loss to the extreme left and right edges of the bark support.
The work is attached to a timber backing board and housed in a Plexiglass box.