Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, circa 1932-2002, BUSH FIRE DREAMING AT WARLUGULONG
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, circa 1932-2002, BUSH FIRE DREAMING AT WARLUGULONGEstimate $10,000 – $15,000
synthetic polymer paint on composition board
bears Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number CP730945 on the reverse
57 BY 43.3CM
Provenance:
Painted at Papunya in 1973
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Private collection
Cf. Vivien Johnson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2004, p.81, see Dreaming Story at Warlugulong, 1976 for a related though later version by the artist in the collection of the National Museum of Australia; and Robert Edwards, Aboriginal Art and Australia, Sydney: Ure Smith, 1978, p.48., for another version by the artist's brother Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri titled Vengeance by Fire, 1978, (illus.).