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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  04 Apr 2012 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  15
• Lot Description:
  Weaver Jack
  c1928 - 2010
  Lungarung, 2006
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  167.5 x 121.0 cm
  inscribed verso: artist's name, date, medium, size and Short Street Gallery cat. 3636
• Provenance:
  Short Street Gallery, Broome; William Mora Galleries, Melbourne (stamped verso); Private collection, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Weaver Jack: Recent Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, 4-28 March 2008
• Notes:
  This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Short Street Gallery, which states: 'This is my country, Lungarung country. It is on the Canning Stock Route 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 bushfood (Mayi) with my mother. We hunted kuwi and sat down there. We didn't have clothes then. I had two brothers. It is this side (west side) of Winpa in Western Australia. It is desert country, proper one, it is my country. We get him bush onion (junta) near the jila. We sing for him and there is plenty there. We grind him up and cook him, he is good mungarri (bush tucker) There are warla (mud flats) there.'
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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