Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula
circa 1925-2001
WATER DREAMING AND LIGHTNING (1971)
Estimate $20,000 – $30,000
PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula
circa 1925-2001
WATER DREAMING AND LIGHTNING (1971)
natural earth pigments and bondcrete on composition board
40 X 15CM
- Lot Sold $26,000 (Hammer Price)
- $31,720 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory (May - June 1971)
Geoffrey Bardon, Sydney
Mrs Margaret Carnegie AO and Sir Roderick Carnegie AC, Melbourne
The Anthony & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne
Literature
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya - A Place Made after the Story: the Beginnings of the Western Desert Movement, Miegunyah Press, 2004, p. 160 (illustrated)
D’Lan DavidsonHead Aboriginal Art |
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Fiona HaywardSenior Specialist Aboriginal Art |
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AU0777 |
28 May 2013 |
Melbourne
6:30 PM