Johnny Bulun Bulun, 1946-2010, MAGPIE GEESE

• Lot Sold $7,000 (Hammer Price)
• $8,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
bears a description of the story depicted and artist's name, title, language group, location, size and catalogue number 14962001BP on Maningrida Arts and Crafts labels on the reverse
143 BY 80CM

Provenance:
Painted at Maningrida in 2001
18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (Telstra Award), 2001
Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection

Exhibited:
18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (Telstra Award), 2001 (Winner of the Telstra Bark Painting Award)
Formed by the Land: Works in fibre, wood and on bark from Maningrida, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne

Literature:
Margie West, Telstra Presents the 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 2001, p.8 (illus.)

This painting is sold with an invitation from the Alison Kelly Gallery exhibition on which the painting is illustrated and a copy of the 18th National Aboriginal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award catalogue.

The catalogue entry for this work reads in part: 'His painting depicts dreamings related to a water hole called Djulubunyamurr near Ngaliyindi outstation. He has divided the work into panels, representing different seasons...'.