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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  04 Apr 2012 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  7
• Lot Description:
  Tommy Mcrae
  1830 - 1901
  Buckley's Escape, 1890S
  pen and ink on paper
  24.0 x 30.0 cm
  inscribed throughout composition: RETURUNING FROM / FUNERAL; HERE / I AM; BUCKLEY's ESCaPE; PUT I'M / DOWN BLA[CK] FELLOW / JUM,P, UP WHITE / FELLOW; A / Native / GraVE; ARRIVAL COVICT / SHIP IN HOBSON BAY; SURPRISE; DRAWN.BY.TOMMEY.McRAY
• Provenance:
  Collected in the 1890s by the current owner's great-grandfather, Corowa region, New South Wales; Thence by descent; Private collection, New South Wales
• References:
  Sayers, A., Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, in association with the National Gallry of Australia, Canberra, 1994, pp. 40-41 and 129, cat. M28
• Notes:
  RELATED WORKS: A group of Aborigines holding spears, and a single European man wearing a suit and hat, pen and ink, 25.0 x 31.5 cm, in Book of Sketches of Aboriginal Life by Tommy McRae, collection of the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne; Buckley meeting a group of Aborigines, Private collection, Canberra, cat. M30; Ceremony withBuckley and sailing-ship, Koorie Heritage Trust, Victoria, cat. M9; and Buckley meeting a group of Aborigines, Private collection, Canberra, cat. M31, illus. in Sayers, A., Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1994, pp. 39-39
• Estimate:
  A$60,000 - 80,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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