Lot #83 - Weaver Jack
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Auction House:Mossgreen
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Sale Name:Australian Indigenous & Oceanic Art
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Sale Date:22 Jul 2014 ~ 6.30pm (Part 1 - Lots 1 - 198)
23 Jul 2014 ~ 2.30pm (Part 2 - Lots 199 - 331) -
Lot #:83
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Lot Description:Weaver Jack
(circa 1928-2010)
Lungarung (2005)
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
168 x 101.5 cm -
Provenance:Short St Gallery, Western Australia (3379); William Mora Galleries, Melbourne; Private Collection, Queensland
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Notes:This painting is sold with gallery documentation that reads, "This is my country, Lungarung country. It is on the Canning Stock road in the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. This is where I was born, I travelled around this place as a young woman walking through the sand dunes (tali) collecting Mayi (bushfood) with my mother. We hunted kuwi, and sat down there. We didn't have clothes then. There is mulga tree here. I had two brothers. It is this side (west side) of Winpa in Western Australia. This one Lungarung, it is desert country, proper one, it is my country. We get him bush onion (junta), near jila. We sing for him, and there is plenty there. We grind him up and cook him, he is good mungarri (bush tucker). There is warla (mud flats) there. Walking around people and sit down people, then we have a go. Then we go to Bidyadanga, living water."
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Estimate:A$7,000 - 10,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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