Declan Apuatimi, 1930-1985, UNTITLED (TWO TIWI CEREMONIAL FIGURES),
Declan Apuatimi, 1930-1985, UNTITLED (TWO TIWI CEREMONIAL FIGURES),Estimate $3,000 – $5,000
- Lot Sold $3,500 (Hammer Price)
- $4,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
natural earth pigments on carved ironwood
LENGTHS: 40CM AND 34.5CM
Provenance:
Executed on Bathurst Island in the mid 1970s
Collected by Terry T. Wright, constable of the Northern Territory Police in 1975
Private collection
Cf. Carol Cooper, et al., Aboriginal Australia, Sydney: Australian Galleries Directors' Council, 1981, p.161, pl.234, for a similar example
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