PADDY BEDFORD (NYUNKUNY) (c1922-2007)
Mad Gap 2004
Estimate: $150000 - 180000
Sold For:
$120000 hammer
$144000 inc. buyer's premium
Description
PADDY BEDFORD (NYUNKUNY) (c1922-2007)
Gija language group
Mad Gap 2004
ochres and pigment with synthetic binder on Belgian linen
122.0 x 135.0 cm
inscribed verso: Jirrawun Arts/ PB-2004-178/ Mad Gap
Provenance:
Jirrawun Arts, Western Australia (cat: PB 6 2004.178)
Private collection, Melbourne
Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 19 March 2008, lot 227
Private collection, Melbourne
Reference:
Storer, R (curator), Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, p.154 (illus.)
Related Works:
Joogoomoondiny - Grawler Gully 2004, natural earth pigments on linen, 135.0 x 122.0 cm, illus. in, Storer, R (curator), Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, p.154 (illus.)
Estimate: $150000 - 180000
Result Hammer: $120000
Location
Auction in Sydney, 16 December 2009
Deutscher-Menzies, Australian & International Fine Art, Lots 1 - 110
Lawson-Menzies, Colonial to Contemporary including Important Aboriginal Art, Lots 111 - 252
Exhibition in Melbourne, 3-6 December 2009
Exhibition in Sydney, 10-15 December 2009