LOT DETAILS

Materials:

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

Measurements:

27.95 in. (71.00 cm.) (height) by 21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears a Dorothy Bennett label on the reverse

Provenance:

:~Painted in western Arnhem Land circa 1960~Dorothy Bennett, Darwin~Private collection, USA~~Cf. For a stylistically similar example depicting a rock python see Wally Caruana (ed.), Windows on the Dreaming: Aboriginal Paintings in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra: Australian National Gallery and Sydney: Ellsyd Press, 1989, fig. no.5, p.32; For another related example formerly in the Spence-Gill Collection (USA) see Nawarran the Rock Python in Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 June 1999, lot 109