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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Spinifex & Sand: The Tony Norton & Jann Williams Collection of Australian Indigenous Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  04 Apr 2016 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  10
• Lot Description:
  Shorty Lungkarda Tjungurrayi
  (1920-1987)
  Death Story (1972)
  synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board
  35.5 x 28.5 cm
• Provenance:
  Stuart Art Centre, Northern Territory; Fine Contemporary and Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 November 1995, lot 614; Private Collection, Sydney; Modern & Contemporary Art & Photography; Aboriginal Art, Phillips De Pury & Company, Sydney, 30 July 2001, lot 208 (illustrated); Private Collection, Sydney; Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 24 June 2002, lot 247 (illustrated); Spinifex & Sand Collection, Tasmania
• Notes:
  Presented in original Stuart Art Centre frame that bears diagram and label verso which reads: ÒMan away back in time coming from country all burning with bushfires. He finds waterhole but is too tired to go on. He dies.Ó
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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