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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, circa 1932-2002, BUSH FIRE DREAMING AT WARLUGULONG

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, circa 1932-2002, BUSH FIRE DREAMING AT WARLUGULONG

Estimate $10,000 – $15,000

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synthetic polymer paint on composition board  
bears Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number CP730945 on the reverse  
57 BY 43.3CM  

Provenance: 
Painted at Papunya in 1973 
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs 
Private collection

Cf. Vivien Johnson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2004, p.81, see Dreaming Story at Warlugulong, 1976 for a related though later version by the artist in the collection of the National Museum of Australia; and Robert Edwards, Aboriginal Art and Australia, Sydney: Ure Smith, 1978, p.48., for another version by the artist's brother Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri titled Vengeance by Fire, 1978, (illus.).

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