‘Bring them home’: Australian crowdfund campaign seeks to buy Wurundjeri art at New York auction
by Kelly Burke from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZEES)
Aboriginal heritage council says it will need to raise $1m to secure bid for two works by artist William Barak at Sotheby's auction
One of Melbourne's Aboriginal heritage councils is facing a race against the clock, in a bid to stop two culturally significant artworks being lost to Australia when they go under the hammer at Sotheby's New York auction house next week.
The two works - an earth pigment and charcoal on paper painting, and a carved hardwood parrying shield - were created by William Barak, a pivotal Wurundjeri ngurungaeta (leader), negotiator and artist in the mid to late 1800s.
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