Aboriginal Art including the Wallent collection of Hermannsburg watercolours and ephemera
Catalogue Information: 363 lots | 282 with images
Date: 2006
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
Australia
Lot 1: ARTIST UNKNOWN, NORTH EAST ARNHEM LAND
UNTITLED 1940S height: 23.5 cmWax, natural earth pigmentsNOTEFigures sculpted in beeswax and painted with clan designs such as this are associated with love magic and sorcery. The anthropologist Charles Mountford collected two human figures of Wuyal [...more]
Lot 2: A DARLING RIVER CLUB, NEW SOUTH WALES,
length: 59 cmwith a triangular striking head and straight shaft replete with fine adze markings, old patina. Bears Holt Collection catalogue number H800 on the front and reverse
Lot 3: A DARLING RIVER CLUB, NEW SOUTH WALES,
length: 65 cmwith smooth surfaces back and front, dark patina
Lot 4: A FINE DARLING RIVER CLUB, NEW SOUTH WALES
length: 70 cmwith a triangular striking head, replete with fine adze markings, old patina
Lot 5: THREE CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN HOOKED BOOMERANGS,
lengths: 69 cm, 67.5 cm, 72 cmcarved in hardwood of bi-convex sections with parallel striated designs on the front, and on the back of one, the other two with adze markings on the back, old patina. Two bear Holt Collection catalogue numbers H011 and [...more]
