Crocodile Hunting, 0.196

natural earth pigments on bark

53 x 30cm

$1,165

Provenance: Groote Island, NT Sothoby's Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Private Collection NSW
Exhibited: The Collectors Edition, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, August 2015
Artwork story: Bark is in a perspex box An outstanding feature of the Groote Eylandt paintings as in this work, is the rich black so often applied to the background. This intensifies the lighter red, yellow and white ochres painted over it. Black pigment is made from manganese, found extensively on the island but not on the mainland, where until recently colours were lighter unless black had been obtained through trading.

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c.1911 – 1981

natural earth pigments on bark

53 x 30cm

$1,165

Provenance: Groote Island, NT Sothoby's Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Private Collection NSW
Exhibited: The Collectors Edition, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, August 2015
Artwork story: Bark is in a perspex box An outstanding feature of the Groote Eylandt paintings as in this work, is the rich black so often applied to the background. This intensifies the lighter red, yellow and white ochres painted over it. Black pigment is made from manganese, found extensively on the island but not on the mainland, where until recently colours were lighter unless black had been obtained through trading.