Artist Unknown, FISH
Artist Unknown, FISHEstimate $3,000 – $5,000
natural earth pigments on carved wood
LENGTH: 82CM
Provenance:
Executed in Central Arnhem Land
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection
Exhibited:
Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 24 April-4 July 1993; Hayward Gallery, London, 23 July-10 October 1993, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, 11 February-23 May 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 23 June-15 August 1994
Literature:
Bernhard Lüthi et al., Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Cologne: Dumont, 1993, p.159, cat.no.29 (illus.).
Cf. For similar sculptures of fish by unknown artists, made at Milingimbi before 1960, collected by Karel Kupka and now in the collection of the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, see Karel Kupka, Dawn of Art: Painting and Sculpture of Australian Aborigines, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965 (the English version of Un art à l'état brut, 1962), p. 70 (illus.).