Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984Estimate $60,000 – $80,000
- Lot Sold $135,000 (Hammer Price)
- $162,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
MEN'S DREAMING (1971-1972)
synthetic polymer paint on composition board
53.8 X 34.8CM
PROVENANCE
Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs (stock 5020)
Christie's, South Kensington, 1992
Patrick Corbally Stourton, United Kingdom
Private Collection, London
This painting is sold with a copy of the original Stuart Art Centre documentation.
LITERATURE
Patrick Corbally Stourton, Songlines and Dreamings: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Lund Humphries, London, 1996, p. 140 (illustrated)
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