AUCTION | Aboriginal Works of Art | 4 June 2019

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LOT #5 Jan Billycan (1930-2016) Untitled, 2009 90 x 60 cm : Frame 94 x 64 cm synthetic polymer paint and natural earth pigments on plywood panel $3,500 - 5,000 PROVENANCE Short Street Gallery, WA, Cat No. 26637 Private Collection, Tas This painting, an expression of her unique and startling talent, depicts the birth place of her father’s clan. There is a big warla (mud flat) at this place in the Great Sandy Desert close to and west of Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route. In 2011 Jan Billycan won the West Australian Indigenous Art Award at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth.


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