Uta Uta Tjangala
circa 1926-1990

PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

Uta Uta Tjangala

circa 1926-1990
TESTICLES GOING WALKABOUT (MEDICINE STORY) (VERSION 1) (1971)

natural earth pigments and bondcrete on composition board
31 X 20CM

• Lot Sold $50,000 (Hammer Price)
• $61,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory (Sep - Oct 1971)
Geoffrey Bardon, Sydney 
Mrs Margaret Carnegie AO and Sir Roderick Carnegie AC, Melbourne
The Anthony Knight OAM & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Papunya - Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Australian Desert, Australian Korea Business Cooperation Committee Reception, Regent Hotel, Melbourne, 23 March 1988 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 East to West, Tandanya, Land in Papunya Tula Paintings, 1990 Love Magic: Erotics and Polotics in Indigenous Art, Perspecta: S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1999 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

Gary Lee and Maurice O\x92Riordan, Love Magic: Erotics and Polotics in Indigenous Art, Perspecta: S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1999 Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p. 304 (illustrated) Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p. 130 (illustrated) Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Aux Sources de la Peinture: Aborigene, Musee du quai Branly, Paris, 2012