John Mawurndjul, born 1952, LORRKON
John Mawurndjul, born 1952, LORRKONEstimate $15,000 – $20,000
- Lot Sold $15,000 (Hammer Price)
- $18,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
natural earth pigments and PVA fixative on stringybark
HEIGHT: 197CM
Provenance:
Executed at Maningrida in Western Arnhem Land in 2006
Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
Private collection
Cf. For other painted lorrkkon (hollow logs) by the artist, see <<rarrk>> John Mawurndjul: Journey through time in Northern Australia, Museum Tinguely, Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2005, p. 139, and two lorrkon in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in Hetti Perkins (ed), Crossing Country: The Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004, p. 205 (illus.). and see Lorrkon - hollow log, 2004, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, in Ron Radford (ed.), Collection Highlights, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2008, p. 24 (illus.).