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Arnaud Serval's aboriginal art collection
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This multifaceted auction's main interest and originality lie in the dispersion of part of the aboriginal art collection
amassed by Arnaud Serval over a 20-year period. In wasn’t until the 1970s that people started putting
these theretofore-ephemeral works on lasting supports, allowing them to become better known. Furthermore,
the aim of this auction is to make these story-telling paintings, which can be "read" like poems with
many layers of understanding, accessible to a wider public. Serval, who travelled to Australia several times
and forged ties with artists there, founded a space dedicated to aboriginal art in Geneva called Carry On. In May 2011, the
collector already sold part of his collection at an auction in Paris (Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr) totalling €269,938. Amongst
the important works up for auction at the Koller auction house in Geneva on 13 November are two acrylics on canvas, one
by Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (Tingari Cycle at Wilkinkarra, Lake Mackay, 210 x 348 cm, CHF60/80,000), the other by Clifford
Possum Tjapaltjarri (The Tjangala Warlugulong Brothers, 1997, 83 x 137 cm, CHF90/120,000). Xavier Narbaïts
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