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Uta Uta Tjangala, circa 1926-1990, TWO SNAKE ANCESTORS AT LAMPINTJA SOUTHWEST OF KINTORE

Uta Uta Tjangala, circa 1926-1990, TWO SNAKE ANCESTORS AT LAMPINTJA SOUTHWEST OF KINTORE

Estimate $15,000 – $20,000

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  • Lot Sold $15,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $18,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

synthetic polymer paint on linen  
bears artist's name on the reverse  
183 BY 59.5CM  

Provenance: 
Painted at Kintore in 1987  
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs (cat.no.UU870222)  
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection

Exhibited: 
Aborigena: Arte australiana contemporanea, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, 29 June-26 August 2001 
Desert Art, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2002 
Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin. Italy, 29 June-26 August 2001; Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 23 February-23 June 2002; Palazzo Vaj, Monash University at Prato, Prato, Italy, 2-30 July 2003; The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts, 21 October-19 December 2003; Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 2 October 2004-30 January 2005
Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Tarrawarra, 23 November 2008-15 March 2009 

Literature:
Achille Bonito Oliva, Aborigena: Arte australiana contemporanea, Milan: Electa, 2001, p.69, cat.no.53 
Achille Bonito Oliva et al, Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Jerusalem, 2003, p.51, cat.no.44 (illus.)

This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate

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OCEANICART  |  26 Jul 2010  | 
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