Provenance
The Artist, painted on Bathurst Island, Northern Territory
Private Collection
Aboriginal & Tribal Art, Sotheby's, Sydney, 9 November 1997, lot 22
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Sotheby's, Sydney, 25 November 2007, lot 38
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 2023, lot 40
Private Collection, United States, acquired from the above
Private Collection
Aboriginal & Tribal Art, Sotheby's, Sydney, 9 November 1997, lot 22
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Sotheby's, Sydney, 25 November 2007, lot 38
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 2023, lot 40
Private Collection, United States, acquired from the above
Literature
Jennifer Isaacs, TIWI: Art, History, Culture, Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Victoria 2012, p. 29 (illus.)
Description
Catalogue Note
Jennifer Isaacs writes in regards to this bark painting:
"At Paru, across the strait from Nguiu, from about 1962 a group of artists became the first to illustrate the Purukapali story figuritively. Most were commissions, completed by Jerry Kerinauia, or Cardo Kerinauia, sometimes with Don Hocking. In the painting, the brothers hold sharp, double-pronged clubs, and standing symbolically between them is the forlorn figure of Bima, 'Wai-ai', holding the dead child. Purchased by John Morris for the mission; a number were sold to Dorothy Bennett".
Isaacs, TIWI Art, History, Culture, p. 29
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Status
Sold