ENGLAND BANGALA

Modj (Rainbow Serpent or Ancestral Creator)

Natural ochre pigment on eucalyptus bark, signed on the reverse (allegedly), 183 x 86.5 cm

Est: $7,000-10,000, Sotheby's, BP Collection of Australian Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 08/09/2002, Lot No. 50

A$6,500

A$7,800

Rainbow Serpent, 1988

Earth pigments and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 189 x 118 cm

Est: $4,000-6,000, Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30/06/1997, Lot No. 62

A$6,500

A$7,475

Hollow Log Coffin, c. 1973

Natural earth pigments on carved wood, height: 273 cm

Est: $5,000-8,000, Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30/06/1997, Lot No. 191

A$6,000

A$6,900

Important Hollow Log Coffin, 1987

Natural earth pigments on wood, height 215 cm

Est: $4,000-6,000, Lawson-Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 31/05/2005, Lot No. 70

A$5,500

A$6,600

Bilimarra - Male and Female Leeches Encircling a Sacred Stone, Djandarra, 1991

Natural earth pigments on bark, 139 x 84 cm

Est: $7,000-9,000, Lawson-Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22/11/2006, Lot No. 162

A$4,800

A$5,760

Barramundl Dreaming (c. 1970)

Earth pigments on bark, 51.5 x 156 cm

Est: $2,200-2,500, Bonhams & Goodman, The Mallesons Stephen Jaques Collection, Sydney, 18/05/2008, Lot No. 178

A$4,600

A$5,520

Hollow Log Coffin

Sculptured wood, height: 216 cm

Est: $2,000-3,000, Goodmans Auctioneers, 12th Sydney National Art Auction, Sydney, 01/04/2003, Lot No. 9

A$2,911

A$3,348

Waterhole Gotjunjindera, 1963

Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark, bears J. A. Davidson label with artist's name, date and a, 81 x 39.5 cm

Est: $3,000-5,000, Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 31/10/2006, Lot No. 290

A$2,600

A$3,120

Rainbow Serpent

Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark, inscribed verso, cat. BANG 245, 155 x 59 cm (irregular)

Est: $3,000-4,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 06/10/2010, Lot No. 140

A$2,400

A$2,880

Central Arnhem-Land, c. 1960

Bark painting of Rainbow Serpent, 138 x 34 cm

Est: $1,500-2,000, Mossgreen Auctions, The Caspian Gallery Auction Featuring the Collection of Bill Evans, Sydney, 22/05/2007, Lot No. 6

A$2,235

A$2,671