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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Indigenous Art
• Sale Date:
  25 May 2016 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  64
• Lot Description:
  Barayauwa Mununggurr
  born 1980
  Yarrinya, 2013
  natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
  192.0 x 75.0 cm
  bears inscription on Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts label verso: artist’s name, location and cat. 4535Q
• Provenance:
  Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory; The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane
• Exhibited:
  Primavera 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney, 24 September – 30 November 2014
• Notes:
  This work is accompanied by a certificate from Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts which states: ‘Barayuwa has painted his mother’s Munyuku clan’s design, inspired by her brother, the late ritual specialist and artist Dula Nurruwutthun. It is associated with the ancestral events relating to the death of an ancestral whale called Mirinyunu on the beaches of the Munyuku saltwater estate of the Yarrinya within Blue Mud Bay.’
• Estimate:
  A$4,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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