b'107Wiliam Dobell/Copyright Agency, 20227WILLIAM DOBELL (18991970)Nondugl, New Guinea, 1950,gouache on paper,titled, signed and dated 50 lower right,16 x 24.5cmPROVENANCEChristies, The Major Harold De Vahl Rubin Collection,Part I, Sydney, 04/10/1972, Lot No. 432.Dobell was haunted by his experience in the New Guinea highlands in 1949 and in April 1950, sponsored by Qantas Empire Airlines, returned to the area, this time extending his travels to include a period in Port Moresby and a boat trip on the Sepik River. On this second expedition, Dobell not only took his sketchbooks but a camera, and recorded on black-and-white film daily life in Mount Hagen and Nondugl, as well as rare early images of the Upper Sepik region. These photographs and sketches formed the basis of many paintings he was to produce in the following two decades.$8,00012,000'