Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa
circa 1920-1989
HONEY ANT TRAVELLING DREAMING (1971)
Estimate $18,000 – $25,000
PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa
circa 1920-1989
HONEY ANT TRAVELLING DREAMING (1971)
natural earth pigments and bondcrete on composition board
61 X 29CM
- Lot Sold $15,000 (Hammer Price)
- $18,300 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory (April - May 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.207 (illustrated)
D’Lan DavidsonHead Aboriginal Art |
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28 May 2013 |
Melbourne
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