Bark Painting – “Two Sea Turtles”
Gawirrin Gumana (1935–2016), Yolngu people, Northern Territory, Australia, c. 1975
Eucalyptus bark with pigments
35.5” h x 14.5" (90.17 x 36.83 cm)
Price: $2,800
This large bark painting, depicting two sea turtles amid two strikingly decorated backdrops, was executed by Gawirrin Gumana, a prominent Yolngu elder in northeastern Arnhem Land. This painting comes from the estate of Steve Lewis (d. 1996), an anthropologist who collected this painting in Australia during the 1970s.
