Willy Djolpa, circa 1937-1995, UNTITLED
Willy Djolpa, circa 1937-1995, UNTITLEDEstimate $10,000 – $15,000
- Lot Sold $11,000 (Hammer Price)
- $13,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
natural earth pigments on carved hardwood
HEIGHT: 146.5CM
Provenance:
Executed at Maningrida in Western Arnhem Land
Private collection
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 and 27 July 2000, lot 434
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection
Exhibited:
Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Tarrawarra, 23 November 2008-15 March 2009
Cf. For another sculpture by the artist, see Katjangay the Turtle, 1984, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia in Australian National Gallery, Painted Objects from Arnhem Land, Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1986 (exhibition brochure, cover image).
Other distinctly raw carvings by the artist can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Museum of Contemprary Art, Sydney.