Paddy Jupurrula Nelson, circa 1919-1999, NGAPA JUKURRPA (WATER DREAMING),
Paddy Jupurrula Nelson, circa 1919-1999, NGAPA JUKURRPA (WATER DREAMING),Estimate $8,000 – $12,000
- Lot Sold $7,500 (Hammer Price)
- $9,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
bears artist's name, title and Warlukurlangu Artists catalogue number 38/89 on the reverse
105.5 BY 96CM
Provenance:
Painted at Yuendumu in 1989
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu
Donald Kahn Collection, USA
Exhibited:
Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, 1991; Carolino Augusteum Museum, Salzburg, The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Naprstkovo Museum, Prague and The Museum of Ethnology, Warsaw during 1992-1993
Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 26 July-16 October 1994
Australian Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert- The Donald Kahn Collection, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 3 December 1994-28 January 1995
Desert Dreaming: Australian Aboriginal Art, Albertina, Vienna, 15 June - 26 August 2007
Literature:
Geoffrey Bardon and Vivien Johnson, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Miami: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1991, p.58, cat.no. 27 (iIlus.), p.79
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1994, cat.no.27, pp.124-125 (colour illus.)
This painting is sold with a copy of the original Warlurkulangu Artists certificate