EAGLE TOTEM, 1960

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
27 March 2013
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BOBBY BARRDJARAY NGANJMIRA

(1915 - 1992)
EAGLE TOTEM, 1960

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

44.0 x 20.5 cm

Estimate: 
$2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $1,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 28 - 27 March 2013, Melbourne
Provenance

Painted at Gunbalanya (Oenpelli), Western Arnhem Land
Private collection, Melbourne

Related works

Eagle Nest in a Tree, c.1960, and Mibarr the Wedge Tailed Eagle, c.1960s, both in the MCA's Arnott's collection, illus. in Mundine, D. et al., They are Meditating, Bark Painting from the MCA's Arnott's Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2008, p. 187