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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

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  • 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

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OCEANICART  |  26 Jul 2010  | 
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