Kaapa (Mbitjana) Tjampitjinpa
circa 1920-1989

PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

Kaapa (Mbitjana) Tjampitjinpa

circa 1920-1989
CORROBOREE AND BODY DECORATION (1972)

natural earth pigments, bondcrete and synthetic polymer paint on composition board
41 X 20CM

• Lot Sold $90,000 (Hammer Price)
• $109,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory
Geoffrey Bardon, Sydney
Mrs Margaret Carnegie AO and Sir Roderick Carnegie AC, Melbourne
The Anthony & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Australian Desert, Corpus Christi College, Melbourne, 8 May 1988 Bicentennial Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Lauiston Girls School, Melbourne, 7 October 1988 Aboriginal Art & Spirituality, The High Court of Australia, Canberra, Parliament House, Canberra, The Exhibition Gallery, The Waverly Centre, Wheelers Hill, Victoria, The Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria, 1991-1992 Papunya Tula - Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 August - 12 November 2000 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

Rosemary Crumlin, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, Dove Publications, Victoria, 1991, p. 77 (illustrated) Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink, Papunya Tula - Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p. 66 (illustrated) Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p. 110 (illustrated) QANTAS Magazine, October 2011 Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Aux Sources de la Peinture: Aborigene, Musee du quai Branly, Paris, 2012