Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri
circa 1926-1998

PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri

circa 1926-1998
UNTITLED (KUTITJI) (1971)

natural earth pigments and synthetic polymer paint on carved softwood
67.5 X 16.7CM

• Lot Sold $7,500 (Hammer Price)
• $9,150 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory
Private Collection, Melbourne
Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 24 March 2010, lot 270, illustrated
The Anthony & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 30 September 2011 - 12 February 2012 Aux Sources de la Peinture: Aborigene, Musee du quai Branly, Paris, 9 October 2012 - 20 January 2013

Literature

Roger Benjamin, Icons of the Desert; Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Herbert Johnson F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, 2009, p. 20 (illustrated in the background of the Men's Painting Room, at Papunya, Northern Territory) Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p. 293 Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Aux Sources de la Peinture: Aborigene, Musee du quai Branly, Paris, 2012