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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 #:
  72
• Lot Description:
  Tom Djawa
  (1905 – 1980)
  Untitled (Ceremonial Mokuy Figure), c.1960
  natural earth pigments on carved softwood
  100.0 cm height
• Provenance:
  Created at Milingimbi, Central Arnhem Land; Private collection, Sydney; Sotheby's, Melbourne, 9 July 2001, lot 60; Private collection; Sotheby's, Melbourne, 20 October 2008, lot 184 ; The Luczo Family Collection, USA
• Notes:
  Related Work: Mokuy, c.1960, illus. in Luthi, B. (ed.), Aratjara, Art of the First Australians: Traditional and Contemporary Works by Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Artists, DuMont Publishing, Cologne, 1993, pl. 31, p. 160; Untitled, c.1695, in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, illus. in O’Ferrall, M.A., Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhem Land in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990, pl. 88, p. 74
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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