# 46140
LOWIE MUSEUM
Australian aboriginal art : September 4th-20th at the Lowie Museum, U.C. Berkeley.
Berkeley : Lowie Museum, University of California, 1987. Quarto sheet (280 x 215 mm), printed recto only on textured paper, illustrated with a detail of a painting by Papunya Pintupi artist Riley Major Tjangala; faint horizontal fold, some edge wear, otherwise very good.
Flyer for a commercial sale of Australian Aboriginal art at the Lowie Museum – a surprising concept for an academic institution, to say the least.
A highly ephemeral printing; no other example traced.
‘The Lowie Museum Store at the University of California is featuring a sale of Australian Aboriginal art and artefacts during the month of September, 1987. The collection of unusual objects, including wood carvings, bark and Papunya paintings, didgeridoos, spears, boomerangs and other weapons, has been carefully selected by Aboriginal Arts Australia, from nomadic tribes in Central Australia and other remote outback regions. This is a rare opportunity for collectors to obtain some first class examples of the art of these ancient people….’