AUCTION | Aboriginal Works of Art | 4 June 2019

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LOT #102 Boxer Milner (c.1934-2008) Purkitji, 1996 75 x 50 cm synthetic polymer paint on canvas $1,600 - 2,400 PROVENANCE Warlayirti Artists, WA Cat No. 583/96 Hogarth Galleries, NSW Private Collection, NSW Private Collection, ACT Boxer Milner, a tall gentle old cattleman, began painting in the late 1980s. Growing in confidence as an artist through the 1990s, his paintings veered further and further away from conventional Balgo aesthetics as he went on to create ever more exciting and challenging compositions. In this small work Boxer depicts the flooded creeks and billabongs at Marduwarra near Pukitji, north of Balgo Hills.


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