Jack Britten
(1925 - 2002)
Jarlinji (Plains Kangaroo), 1990
natural earth pigments on canvas
80.0 x 160.0 cm
bears inscription verso: artist's name, size and Waringarri Aboriginal Arts cat. S-2921 and AP-3410
Estimate:
$20,000 - $30,000
© Estate of Jack Britten 2025
lot details
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra, Western Australia
Lindsay Street Gallery, Darwin
Private collection, New South Wales
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, lot 130
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Recent Works by the Artists of Warmun Community, Turkey Creek, Western Australia, Lindsay Street Gallery, Darwin, 1991, cat. 22
This work was originally sold with a copy of the original certificate of authenticity from Waringarri Aboriginal Arts which stated in part:
‘This painting shows Garndi country near Port Headland. It is a dreaming place where the plains kangaroo (Jarlinji) started out to travel to the Kija country when he was a man in the dreamtime. He came from the west right up to Turkey Creek. The north/south highway runs through the picture and the road is intersected by a railway line. On the western side of the road are large rocks or hills and on the eastern side (represented at the bottom of the painting) are lots of small rocks standing upright. The rocks are decorated with the sacred patterns belonging to the plains kangaroo’


