BURRANDAY (CIRCA 1914-1970s) Untitled (Crucifixion Study) (circa 1963) natural earth pigments and charcoal on eucalyptus bark 87.5 x 60.5 cm PROVENANCE Painted at Milingimbi, Central Arnhem Land Yarrandoo Australia, Cairns Private Collection Aboriginal Art, Sotheby`s Australia, Melbourne, 25 July 2005, lot 220, illustrated Private Collection, New South Wales The painting incorrectly bears the artist`s name `Lipundja` [sic] and catalogue number 329 verso. Burrunday was one of the painters of the Milingimbi Easter Panels, one of which now hangs in the National Gallery of Australia (see Franchesca Cubillo and Wally Caruana (eds.), Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art: Collection highlights, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2010, pp.124-5.) The paintings were inspired by the Church Panels that were made in 1963 to hang either side of the altar in the mission church at Yirrkala. The community on the island of Milingimbi had decided on making the Easter Panels as a backdrop for a pageant organised by the Methodist Church, and they were not intended for permanent display. The only support material available on Milingimbi at the time was a table-tennis top. One half of the table was painted by artists of the Yirritja moiety this is the panel in the National Gallery`s Collection. The second panel was painted by Dhuwa artists, including Burrunday. Untitled (Crucifixion Study), c.1963, appears to be a study for the finished Dhuwa panel which featured Jesus Christ on the cross surrounded by his family and Roman soldiers. Arnhem Land bark paintings depicting Christian subjects are rare. Mawalan Marika (1908-1967), a major contributor to the Yirrkala Church panels is known to have painted the death of Christ. One version of his, Crucifixion, c.1968, is in the collection of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin (illustrated in R. Crumlin and A. Knight, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, Melbourne: Dove Publications, 1995, p.29, pl.9). The Crucifixion of Jesus, 1964, by Thomas Nandjiwarra Amagula (c.1926-1989) from Groote Eylandt is also illustrated in Crumlin and Knight, p.31, pl.10. Wally Caruana
We found 209236 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 209236 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
209236 item(s)/page
A rare limestone figure group of the Virgin and child, south west France, circa 1530111cm high, 36cm wide, 26cm deepProvenance:Graham Cornall AntiquesRenaissance and High Renaissance images of the Virgin and Child often emphasise the humanity of Christ and Mary’s maternal responses. The artist of this beautiful painted limestone statue carved the Christ Child, accordingly, with distinctively chubby and sleepy-looking features. He is also shown with a finger in his mouth as another purely naturalistic representation; emphasizing that he was, after all, a human baby. His left hand, however, grasps an apple. This refers symbolically to Adam and Eve’s transgression in the Garden of Eden and is intended to remind the viewer that Christ will be sacrificed in order to redeem humankind. Mary’s gaze suggests a prescient sorrow caused by her contemplation of her son’s fate. This poignant representation is balanced by the regal appearance of Mary. In France, especially, Mary was often depicted in a manner in keeping with courtly culture. Here, she therefore displays delicate, refined features. Her simple but voluminous red gown, tinged with gold and her tall decorative crown suggest an elegant nobility in keeping with her future as Queen of Heaven. This is balanced with her simple white veil that refers to her humility and virginity.Dr. Bronwyn Stocks
A rare polychromed limestone figure of the virgin and child, French, 16th century 110cm high, 43cm high, 26cm deep Provenance: Graham Cornall Antiques, Melbourne Note: A comparable polychrome decorated limestone example was sold at Sothebys New York, 25/1/07, lot 226. This figure is slightly later in date being last quarter of the 15th century, but has similarly thick parted hair and deeply carved flowing drapery. A further carved wood Virgin and Child circa 1500 was sold at Sothebys, London 7/7/06 (lot 24). Stylisitically this piece has many similar characteristics to the present lot; the same high crown, elongated features and serene expression; similar long wavy hair and draped robes raised by the left arm. In 15th century comparable examples the Christ Child is usually depicted holding a dove and the use of a scroll in the present piece is quite unusual. 14th century groups from the Ile-de-France region often show the Christ Child holding a piece of fruit and reaching out for the Virgins veil; please see Paul Williamson `Northern Gothic Sculpture`, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988, where he discusses this trend. On page 126 he illustrates a Virgin and Child circa 1340-1350 with a similarly tall and elaborately carved crown, and the Christ Child holding a goldfinch; and Page 130 illustrates a slightly later Virgin and Child, also of limestone with polychrome decoration, datable to 1350-70 with the Christ Child holding a book.
A rare Florentine walnut and gilt cassone, Italian, late 15th/16th century 71cm high, 175cm wide, 58cm deep Provenance: John Dunn Antiques, Melbourne Note: "Italian Cassoni, from the Art Collections of Soviet Museums by Aurora Art Publishers. Leningrad" plates 68-72 for almost identical cassone
William de Morgan (1839-1917). A rare and large faience baluster vase, painted by Fred Passenger, the body painted with partially intertwined great crested newts, the foot painted with primroses, the inside of the neck painted blue, painted marks W. de Morgan Fulham, with painted initials F.P, 39cm h, old damages and repair to foot. Provenence: private collection and thence by descent.
William de Morgan (1839-1917). A large and rare twin handled vase, the body painted both sides with the tree of wisdom entwined with the serpents, interspersed with cornflowers, one side with butterfly, the blue handles painted with scrolling decoration, painted marks W. de. M Fulham 2176 F. P 50, 52cm h (damage and repair to flared rim and losses to glaze, mainly to the lower part of the body, one handle repaired, the other off but present together with associated contemporary oriental style carved ebonised circular exhibition stand. Provenence: private collection and thence by descent.
A rare Vienna Sorgenthal period porcelain Plate, early 19th c. The decoration believed to be in factory and of the period, the central well painted with scene from antiquity within a pink and gold border with cartouches of trophies in a black ground in the manner of Leopold Tobola. Impressed date code 818 for 1818. Also impressed turner's numeral 30. Some wear to gilding
A very good and rare Duchams Engine oil enamel advertising sign with thermometer - finished in white, green and black - Total size 115 cm x 28.5 cm - together with a spare thermometer tube for a similar sign - Length 50 cm Condition report: Thermometer present but thermometer bulb guard replaced, some rusting
![JOAN GALLE [BELGIAN 1600-1675], ENGRAVING ON PAPER, H 6 1/2", W 4": PAPER H 10 1/2", L 6 1/2": "Mari](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/33875/2913619/2018-201482014148_468x382.jpg)
REJLANDER (OSCAR), AN ALBUM OF SEVENTY ALBUMEN PRINTS, CIRCA 1865-66 A rare and interesting folio of seventy portrait and figurative photographs by this pioneer, the albumen prints mounted on gilt-edged card leaves in a single volume with gilt and tooled black morocco bindings, the sitters including Rejlander himself, Mary Rejlander (nee Bull), Sir Henry Taylor, Hallam Tennyson (son of Lord Alfred Tennyson), John and Minnie Constable, the youngest of Lord Hawarden's children, possibly including Elphinstone 'Eppy' Maud and other unidentified subjects, album 30cm x 25cm, prints varying in size from 12cm oval up to 21cm x 15cm, some with titles or annotations in pencil. See illustration. The complete album is re-created as a pageturner pdf book on www.morphets.co.uk Provenance: This album was part of the estate of Surgeon Commander Herbert Ackland Browning RN and thence by descent to the vendor. Commander Browning served throughout the First World War, never married and died at the family home in Dawlish in 1955. Herbert's father, Captain George Browning RN, was a naval hydrographer and married Elizabeth (nee) Kendal, daughter of Dr Marsters Kendal of Kings Lynne, honorary surgeon to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, at Sandringham. It is possible that the album belonged to him and was thus lent to the Prince of Wales and others as annotations indicate. Footnote: Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813-1875), known as the Father of Art Photography, was born in Sweden and studied art in Rome, settling in England in the 1840s. He lived in Lincoln and later Wolverhampton, working as an artist and portrait miniaturist. He took an active interest in photography, seeing its potential for assisting artists and in 1853 attended lessons in the London studio of Nicholas Henneman. This inspired him to develop his own techniques experimenting with portraiture although it is his pioneering work in photo-montage, combining several negatives to form one image, that brought him to wider renown. His best known work The Two Ways of Life comprised thirty-two negatives and took six weeks to produce. Following its exhibition in Manchester in 1857 a copy was ordered by Queen Victoria for Prince Albert. Rejlander became a member of the Royal Photographic Society, regularly lecturing and publishing on the subject and in 1862 he moved to London where he built a photographic studio designed to make the best use of natural light for his subjects. During his work he came into contact with Julia Margaret Cameron, Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), Lady Clementina (Maud) Hawarden and Charles Darwin. In the early 1870s he worked with Darwin on illustrations for his treatise on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Although Rejlander sold volumes of his photography through book shops and art dealers it is unknown if the album in this lot was obtained thus by Captain Browning. One pencil annotation suggests it may have been bought directly from the photographer as it reads 'Rejlander had refused to sell this copy (the only one obtained from the negative taken) at any price: but the offer of £2.2.0 for the Swedish poor was too much for his nerves and I obtained it DEO GRATIAS'. A further annotation inside the front cover reads 'This album has the honour of being submitted in 1866 to HRH The Prince of Wales by Colonel Teesdale (3 weeks), in 1870 at the request of Cardinal Antorelli to HH Pope Pius IXth by Monsignor Pacca (1 week), into 1871 to Her Majesty by Lady Elgin (several weeks)'. Some of the prints herein are well known examples also held in the collections of the Royal Photographic Society, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
MARSH ARAB (IRAQ) WALL HANGING, hand worked in predominantly red and orange wools, measuring approximately 2.38 metres x 1.74 metres. Footnote: The Marsh Arab civilisation and culture was centred at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the marshes of Southern Iraq. They lived in arched reed houses, often on floating islands of reed and were all but destroyed by Saddam Hussein when, after the first Gulf war in 1991, his government aggressively revived a programme to divert the flow of the two great rivers away from marshes in retribution for a failed Shia uprising (most of the Marsh Arabs were of that religious persuasion and their numbers have dwindled from about half a million in the 1950s to as few as 20,000 in Iraq). As a result of Saddam's actions, the Marsh Arab culture has almost been wiped out and the woollen wall hanging, to which this example relates, has become a rare item. See illustration
A rare and unusual early 20th Century Huntely & Palmers pottery Biscuit Barrel modelled as a mid 18th Century Bombe shaped commode, by Royal Doulton (registered No. 459880), the rectangular cover decorated "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers", 18.5cm x 14cm high CONDITION REPORT: Some paint away, discolouration to interior and glaze crazing etc.,
A rare surviving lecture poster for ‘The Development of Jet Propulsion’ by G.B.R. Feilden of Power Jets Ltd December 5th 1945; together with a miniature desk-top model of ‘Concorde’; a later format photograph of a flight of six Nonal N2501 ‘Noratlas’ aircraft over-flying the ‘Arc de Triomphe’ and a parade on the Avenue de Champs Elysees, framed and glazed 15 1/4in. x 11 1/4in. (38.7cm x 28.6cm); and a rough cast model of a Boeing B-17, 11 1/4in. (28.6cm) wingspan, (4).
The following lots are from a private collection of Royal Worcester, Chamberlain Worcester and Grainger Worcester collected by the vendor over many years and comprising only the rare or unusual dating from the 1790's until 1960's, now being sold without reserve due to illness. A Grainger Worcester lidded and marbled urn with gilded hoof supports and jewelled finial (26cm high)
Loading...-
209236 item(s)/page