LOT #45 Charlie Mardigan (1926-1986) Untitled, 1968 64.5 x 22.5 cm (irregular) natural earth pigment on Eucalyptus bark $2,500 - 3,500 PROVENANCE Painted at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Vic Private Collection, Vic Wadeye artists were introduced to bark in the 1950s by missionaries who recognised the growing market for bark paintings from Arnhem Land. Charlie Mardigan became a leading exponent and his bark paintings were renowned for expressions of the orderly nature of the universe, and of human society.
AUCTION | Aboriginal Works of Art | 4 June 2019
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