A wood carving snapped up at an estate clearance in Canada for the price of lunch is poised to deliver a whopping return to the bargain hunter who sent it to Australia for auction in the country of its making.
Alec Mingelmanganu’s Double Wanjina, c. 1978, hangs in Deutscher + Hackett’s Sydney viewing rooms and is estimated to fetch $8000 to $12,000 in the firm’s Important Australian Indigenous Art sale in Melbourne on March 26.
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Elizabeth Fortescue writes the Saleroom column and about the visual arts. She was previously arts editor at The Daily Telegraph and is Australia correspondent for The Art Newspaper.
