PADDY BEDFORD - THOONBI

 PADDY BEDFORD
THOONBI,  2006
150 x 180 cm
Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on Belgian linen
 
PROVENANCE
Kimberley, WA
Jirrawun Arts, WA catalogue number PB 5 2006Private collection, VICWilliam Nuttall and Annette ReevesBonhams, Aboriginal Art; Aboriginal Art from The Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves, Sydney, 28/05/2012, Lot No. 168Private Collection, NSW 
 
STORY
According to anthropologist Dr. Frances Kofod, 'Thoonbi is a small, beautiful gorge on the upper reaches of the Ord River on Bedford Downs Station in the east Kimberley. It is close to the place where the road into Bedford Downs crosses the river' (ibid, p.135).
 
EXHIBITED
Literature: Linda Michael (ed.),Ā Paddy Bedford, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006, p.159 (illus.). Cf. For five related paintings of the same size and palette which were executed in 2006 see Lind Michael (ed.),Ā Paddy Bedford, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006, pp.112-116.