PURUKAPALI AND BIMA, 1962

Aboriginal Art from the Luczo Family Collection
Melbourne
19 October 2016
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MANI-LUKI (HARRY CARPENTER) WOMMATAKIMMI

(c.1914 – 1980)
PURUKAPALI AND BIMA, 1962

natural earth pigments on carved softwood

49.5 and 48.5 cm height

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000 (2)
Sold for $12,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 45 - 19 October 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, Adelaide, acquired at Milikapiti, Melville Island, 1962
Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 24 July 2007, lot 76
The Luczo Family Collection, USA

Literature

Isaacs, J., Tiwi: Art / History / Culture, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2012, p. 69 (illus. as ‘Macassan Figures’)

Related works

Maccassan Captains Wife, 1960s and Maccassan Ship Captain, 1960s, in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, illus. in O’Ferrall, M. A., Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhem Land in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990, pl. 23, 24, p. 31