Lipundja, circa 1912-1968, MURAYANA FIGURE

natural earth pigments on carved wood  
HEIGHT: 146CM  

Provenance: 
Executed at Milingimbi, Central Arnhem Land in the 1960s 
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection  

Exhibited:  
Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 24 April-4 July 1993; Hayward Gallery, London, 23 July-10 October 1993, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, 11 February-23 May 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 23 June-15 August 1994  

Literature: 
Bernhard Lüthi et al, Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Cologne: Dumont, 1993, p.160, cat.no.30 (illus.) 
Djon Mundine, et al., The Native Born: Objects and representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999, p.66 (illus.)

Cf. For a similar sculpture by the artist of a figure of the Yirritja moiety ancestor Banaitja in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, see M. A. O'Ferrall, Keepers of the Secrets: Aboriginal Art from Arnhemland in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1990, p.71, pl. 83; Louis Allen, Time Before Morning: Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines, New York: Thomas V. Cromwell, 1975, p.151; and Louis Allen, Aboriginal Art: Arnhem Land, Chicago: Field Museum 1972, p.10, fig. 7, (illus.).