LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Natural earth pigments on carved wood

Measurements:

14.37 in. (36.50 cm.) (height)

Exhibited:

. Open Air: Portraits in the Landscape , National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 3 December 2008 - 1 March 2009.

Literature:

Jennifer Isaacs,. Tiwi Art/History/Culture , The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2012, p. 160, illus. . Cf. Aboriginal Art from the Thomas Vroom Collection , Bonhams, Sydney, 6 September 2015, lot 15, for a related figure

Provenance:

Executed on Bathurst or Melville Island, circa 1962. Sotheby's,. Tribal Art , Melbourne, 21 April 1991, lot 27. Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, purchased 7 October 1999. Fiona Brockhoff, Melbourne.