Lot #9036 - Rover (Julama) Thomas
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Auction House:Theodore Bruce
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Sale Name:Aboriginal & Oceanic Art | March
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Sale Date:29 Mar 2021 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
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Lot #:9036
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Lot Description:Rover (Julama) Thomas
(c.1926-1998)
Meeting Place, Warmun or Kununurra 1996
Ochres on canvas
90 x 120 cm stretched
Red Earth Art, St Kilda, Certificate of Authenticity Cat. No. 108
Condition: Scuffing to parts of the surface, particularly to inside edge of yellow stripe, slight scuff marks to lower 1/2 of black circle (seen in photo of work with artist)stretched -
Notes:Rover states: "The painting is about a meeting place, where we all meet in a central location. The place varies, it might be here or up at Kununurra". Painted a Warmun in April 1996. Accompanying this work is a letter from Patrick Hoppe regarding the works & a photograph of the artist with the work. Hoppe was employed at Ochre Gallery in Kununurra in 1995. He returned to Warmun in 1996 and commissioned a series of works by Rover Thomas, including this painting. Another work by Rover Thomas commissioned by Patrick Hoppe (Red Earth Art) was sold as Lot 267 at Sotheby's Important Aboriginal Art sale on July 24, 2007.
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Estimate:A$30,000 - 50,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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