LOT DETAILS

Materials:

natural earth pigments on composition board

Measurements:

25.59 in. (65.00 cm.) (height) by 30.12 in. (76.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears catalogue number 22010/3 on the reverse

Provenance:

:~Painted circa 1985~Acquired by a nursing sister at Warmun (Turkey Creek) between 1984-1989~Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 June 1999, lot 12~Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves~~The previous owner recalls that it depicts a 'Dreamtime Story of a Man and a Wife running away. The wife looked back and they turned into stone. The area is between Bow River and Crocodile Hole.'