Uta Uta Tjangala
circa 1926-1990

PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

Uta Uta Tjangala

circa 1926-1990
UNTITLED (KUTITJI) (1971)

natural earth pigments on carved wood
75 X 25.6CM

• Lot Sold $7,000 (Hammer Price)
• $8,540 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory
Bortingnon Kalamunda Gallery of Man, Western Australia
Margaret Carnegie AO, Melbourne
The Anthony & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

East to West, Tandanya, Land in Papunya Tula Paintings, Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, 1990 Aratjara - Art of the First Australians; Kunstsammung Nordrhein - Westfaien, Dusseldorf, 1993; Hayward Gallery, London, 1993; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, 1994; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1994 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

Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink, Papunya Tula - Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000 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