RAY, Baku (Aboriginal c1905-?) Barramundi & Shoveller Birds, c.1964. Label verso 'Artist: Baku Ray. Tribe: Jinang now living at Maningrida, N.T. Painting: A big barramundi showing his stomach (black) and two shoveller birds. They are the painter's totems... he calls them 'my father.'
Natural Earth Pigments on Bark 70x25.5cm
PROVENANCE: Eudald Serra Collection, Barcelona, acquired in 1964; The Estate of Eudald Serra, Barcelona.
EXHIBITIONS: Arte Aborigen Australiano, Sala de Santa Catalina del Ateneo, Madrid, 11 May 1967.
LITERATURE: Alberto Folch and Eudald Serra, Arte Aborigen Australiano, Cuadernos de Arte, Madrid, 1967. Estimate $600-1,000