A FINE CENTRAL DESERT BARK PAINTING

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A FINE CENTRAL DESERT BARK PAINTING

Depicting freshwater tortoises and catfish with cross-hatched bodies, painted in brown,ochre and cream on a black ground with painted vegetation, by Ray Munyal
84.5cm. x 51cm.

Lot Essay

A large typed sheet attached to the back of the painting relates at length that it was collected by Dorothy Bennett (probably in the mid 1970s). The writer then recounts a myth which he associates with the subject of the painting.

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