John Mawurndjul, born 1952, LORRKON

• Lot Sold $15,000 (Hammer Price)
• $18,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

natural earth pigments and PVA fixative on stringybark 
HEIGHT: 197CM

Provenance: 
Executed at Maningrida in Western Arnhem Land in 2006  
Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
Private collection

Cf. For other painted lorrkkon (hollow logs) by the artist, see <<rarrk>> John Mawurndjul: Journey through time in Northern Australia, Museum Tinguely, Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2005, p. 139, and two lorrkon in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in Hetti Perkins (ed), Crossing Country: The Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004, p. 205 (illus.). and see Lorrkon - hollow log, 2004, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, in Ron Radford (ed.), Collection Highlights, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2008, p. 24 (illus.).