Mawalan Marika (c.1908 - 1967)

WAGILAG STORY (SNAKES AND FISH), c.1965

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

46.0 x 110.0 cm

bears artist’s biography and a description of the story attached verso

Painted in the Yirrkala region, Northern Territory, in the mid-1960s
Collection of Thomas Vroom, The Netherlands
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 26 February 2017, lot 321 (as ‘Artist Unknown’)
Grant Smith collection, Melbourne

This work is located at our Melbourne gallery