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Paddy Compass Nambatbara
Bark Painting1930

Not on view
Bark painting with two schematic human figures rendered in terracotta orange and cream white on dark brown bark, with striped legs, sinuous outlines, and stylized headdress forms
Artist or Maker
Paddy Compass Nambatbara
Australia, Alardju Clan, 1890 - 1973
Title
Bark Painting
Place Made
Australia, Arnhem Land, Oenpelli Region
Date Made
1930
Medium
Bark and pigment
Dimensions
Height: 70 1/2 in. (179.07 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Masco Corporation
Accession Number
M.2009.127.9
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Art of the Pacific
Provenance
Collected in 1932 by Father Herman Noakes, Berlin. Wayne Heathcote (b. 1943), New York, NY, sold to; Masco Corporation Collection, Livonia, MI, gift 2009 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Wardwell, Allen. Island Ancestors: Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection. [Seattle]: University of Washington Press, 1994.

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