MOTOR CAR YARD - BLANKET LIZARD DREAMING, 2005

Beyond Sacred: Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection
Sydney
8 March 2015
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PADDY NYUNKUNY BEDFORD

(c.1922 - 2007)
MOTOR CAR YARD - BLANKET LIZARD DREAMING, 2005

natural earth pigments with synthetic binder on linen

150.0 x 180.0 cm

signed with initials verso: PB
inscribed verso: title and Jirrawun Arts cat. PB 5 2005.214

Estimate: 
$150,000 - 180,000
Sold for $168,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 38 - 8 March 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Jirrawun Arts, Kununurra
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, purchased in December 2005

Exhibited

Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 6 December 2006 – 15 April 2007; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 12 May – 22 July 2007
Remembering Forward: Australian Aboriginal Painting since 1960 / Malerei Der Australischen Aborigines seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 20 November 2010 – 20 March 2011, cat. 5 (illus. p. 27 in exhibition catalogue)

Literature

Storer, R., Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, pp. 111, 128 (detail), 156 (illus.)
Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, pp. 236–237 (illus.)
Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, edition II, Kleimeyer Industries Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2011, pp. 252–253 (illus.)