Walter Tjampitjinpa circa 1910-1981
Walter Tjampitjinpa circa 1910-1981Estimate $22,000 – $28,000
- Lot Sold $22,000 (Hammer Price)
- $26,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
SNAKE DREAMING (1971)
synthetic polymer paint on composition board
38 X 40CM (IRREGULAR)
PROVENANCE
Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs (stock 9006)
Private Collection
Christie's, South Kensington, 1992
Patrick Corbally Stourton, United Kingdom
Private Collection, London
LITERATURE
Patrick Corbally Stourton, Songlines and Dreamings: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Lund Humphries, London, 1996, p. 175 (illustrated incorrectly)
Geoffrey and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p. 341
This work has been requested for the forthcoming exhibition Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, organised by the National Gallery of Victoria and Museum Victoria in conjunction with Papunya Tula Artists, which will be held at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne, 30 September 2011 - 12 February 2012, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, October 2012 - February 2013.
PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF PATRICK CORBALLY STOURTON, UNITED KINGDOM