BRUMBY YARD SPRING - BOW RIVER STATION, 2010

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
127

FREDDIE TIMMS

born c.1948
BRUMBY YARD SPRING - BOW RIVER STATION, 2010

natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

150.0 x 180.0 cm

inscribed verso: Red Rock Art cat. KP2777

Estimate: 
$15,000 - 20,000
Provenance

Red Rock Art, Kununurra
Private collection, Western Australia

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Red Rock Art which states: 'The artist was born at Police Hole, Bedford Downs Station and spent much of his childhood on Bow River and Lissadell Stations, later working as a stockman fencer and Horse Breaker on several stations in the East Kimberley.

This painting depicts country on Bow River Station and a place called Brumby Yard Creek where Freddy remembers (the black line through the work) where the stockmen would camp and water their horses.'