Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
Lot 19
Lin Onus(1948-1996)Untitled
Amended
19 November 2017, 16:00 AEDT
Melbourne, ArmadaleSold for AU$10,980 inc. premium
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Alex Clark
Head of Sale, Senior Specialist
Lin Onus (1948-1996)
Untitled
signed lower right: 'Lin Onus'
gouache on illustration board
50.0 x 38.0cm (19 11/16 x 14 15/16in).
signed lower right: 'Lin Onus'
gouache on illustration board
50.0 x 38.0cm (19 11/16 x 14 15/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Private collection, United States of America
The clan designs overlaid by Onus onto this landscape are unique to the artist's ancestral country in South East Australia and are found carved into trees as well as on broad shields and other artefacts. Like Onus' overlaying of rarrk onto landscapes in other works, this too "can be interpreted as a process of indigenising the 'other', of claiming custodianship of the land and of subverting the primacy of Western systems of representation".1
1. Margo Neale, Urban Dingo: The Art and Life of Lin Onus, 1949-1996, Thames and Hudson, Victoria, p.16
Saleroom notices
This lot has an export permit under the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986