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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Aboriginal Art from the Luczo Family Collection, USA
• Sale Date:
  19 Oct 2016 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  16
• Lot Description:
  Enraeld Djulabinyana Munkara
  (1882 – 1968)
  Double-Sided Figure Representing Bima And Purukapali, c.1955
  natural earth pigments on carved ironwood
  51.0 cm height
• Provenance:
  Created on Melville Island, c.1955; Dorothy Bennett Collection, Darwin; The Wesfarmers Collection, Perth; Sotheby's, Sydney, November 1997, lot 39 (illus. catalogue cover); Private collection, Sydney; AP Bond Gallery, Adelaide; The Luczo Family Collection, USA
• Notes:
  Related Work: Purukapali and Bima, c.1955, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, illus. in Caruana, W., Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 2003, pl. 73, p. 90; The Grief of Bima, c.1965, in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, illus. in O’Ferrell, M.A., Keepers of the Secrets; Aboriginal Art from the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990, pl. 27, p. 32; The Artist in Pukumani for his Brother, c.1960, in the collection of National Museum of Australia, Canberra, illus. in Luthi, B., et al. Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Dumont, Cologne, 1993, p. 158. According to the original collection annotations, the figure on the reverse with only one breast represents Bima's friend. However, the single breasted figure may represent Bima, after her child has died.
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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