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Aboriginal Standouts Test Market Bottom

July 19, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Chuguna/Bent paintingThe Australian Herald Sun picks some winners from Sotheby’s sale of Aboriginal Art on Monday:

Sotheby’s Aboriginal art sale at its Melbourne gallery in Armadale has some standout works. There are paintings by Rover Thomas and Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri.

There is also a huge two-metre by five-metre canvas by sisters Jukuna Mona Chuguna and Ngarta Jinny Bent. It was painted in France during the Biennale de Lyon in 2000 and relates to land claim paintings. The paintings show ownership, a pictorial deed, in this case of 10 big waterholes in Walmajarri country in the Great Sandy Desert.

Strangely, the colours have strong greens and blues and look like Caribbean art but they are the colours surrounding waterholes or springs that form an oasis. It makes the painting unique and should attract a bid from one of the national galleries with an estimate between $80,000 and $120,000.

Aboriginal Standouts Should Hold Their Value (Herald Sun)

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