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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2022 ~ 7.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  50
• Lot Description:
  Lin Onus
  (1948-1996)
  Untitled
  gouache on illustration board
  50.0 x 38.0cm (19 11/16 x 14 15/16in).
  signed lower right: 'Lin Onus'
• Provenance:
  Private collection, United States of America; Bonhams, Sydney, 19 November 2017, lot 19; Private collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  The clan designs overlaid by Onus onto this landscape are unique to the artist's ancestral country in South East Australia and are found carved into trees as well as on broad shields and other artefacts. Like Onus' overlaying of rarrk onto landscapes in other works, this too "can be interpreted as a process of indigenising the 'other', of claiming custodianship of the land and of subverting the primacy of Western systems of representation".1. 1. Margo Neale, Urban Dingo: The Art and Life of Lin Onus, 1949-1996, Thames and Hudson, Victoria, p. 16
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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