Wally Mandarrk
(1915 - 1987)
MALE SPIRIT WITH SPEARTHROWER (BORNDOK) AND HOOKED SPEAR (BOKKO)
natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
85.0 x 26.0 cm (irregular)
112.0 x 49.0 x 10.5 cm (frame)
bears inscription on label verso: Mandark collection/No. 2
Estimate:
$2,000 - $4,000
Sold:
$2,945 (inc. BP)
© Wally Mandarrk/Copyright Agency 2022
lot details
112.0 x 49.0 x 10.5 cm (frame)
Maningrida Arts and Crafts, Northern Territory
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 20 April 1994
Exhibited
Celestial Earth, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 19 November 2011 – 4 March 2012
National Treasures, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 14 November 2015 – 13 March 2016
Literature
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 209 (illus.), 225
This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery
Condition:
This work is in good and stable condition.
There are light surface abrasions and with loss of pigment to small areas to the central figure and the lower right spearthrower and evidence of staining to the bark support across the groin of the central figure.
These are old, stable, characteristic of the medium and age of the work, and visible in the enlarged online catalogue image.
The work is attached with clear plastic clips to a hessian lined backboard, housed in a custom, dark timber box frame under protective Perspex.