Lot 47
Freddie Ngarrmaliny Timms(born circa 1944)Texas, 1997
24 March 2013, 14:00 AEDT
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary ArtSold for AU$21,960 inc. premium
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Freddie Ngarrmaliny Timms (born circa 1944)
Texas, 1997
bears artist's name 'F.Timms', year, title and catalogue number F.T.15 on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
120 x 160cm (47 1/4 x 63in).
bears artist's name 'F.Timms', year, title and catalogue number F.T.15 on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
120 x 160cm (47 1/4 x 63in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE:
Painted in Wollongong, New South Wales for Tony Oliver and Watters Gallery, Sydney
Purchased from Watters Gallery, Sydney in October 1997
The Laverty Collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED:
Freddie Timms (Ngarrmaliny) - Recent Paintings, Watters Gallery in association with Tony Oliver, Sydney, 1 - 18 October 1997, cat. no. 14
The Laverty Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 20 June - 23 August 1998
Paintings from Remote Communities: Indigenous Australian Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, 15 December 2007 - 24 February 2008; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, 5 July - 31 August 2008
The Australian Club, Melbourne, 30 June - 16 September 2011
LITERATURE:
The Laverty Collection, exh. cat., Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998
Colin Laverty, 'Diversity and Strength: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art - A Private Collection', in Arts of Asia, November - December 2003, cat. no. 22, p.89 (illus.)
Rhana Devenport and Will Owen, Paintings from Remote Communities: Indigenous Australian Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, New Zealand: Govett Brewster Art Gallery, 2007, catalogue cover (illus.)
Weekend Review Arts, 5-6 July, 2008, p.17 (illus.)
Look magazine, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, July 2008, p.32 (illus.)
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2008, pp.244-245 (illus.)
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Edition II, Melbourne: Kleimeyer Industries, 2011, pp. 272-273 (illus.)