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Lot 89

Prince of Wales
(Midpul) (circa 1937-2002)
Body Marks, 1999

24 March 2013, 14:00 AEDT
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art

Sold for AU$30,500 inc. premium

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Prince of Wales (Midpul) (circa 1937-2002)

Body Marks, 1999
bears artist's name, title, medium, dimensions, catalogue number #EP 26/99 and Karen Brown Gallery details on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
133 x 97cm (52 3/8 x 38 3/16in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Purchased from Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin in April 2000
The Laverty Collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED:
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

LITERATURE:
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, p.253 (illus.)

This painting is sold with accompanying Karen Brown Gallery documentation.

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