Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri
circa 1928-1998
CEREMONIAL MEDICINE STORY (1971)
Estimate $35,000 – $55,000
PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri
circa 1928-1998
CEREMONIAL MEDICINE STORY (1971)
natural earth pigments and bondcrete on composition board
40 X 20CM
- Lot Sold $46,000 (Hammer Price)
- $56,120 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs (stock 10016)
Important Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 29 June 1998, lot 1, illustrated
The Anthony & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne, 30 September 2011 - 12 February 2012
Literature
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne 2004, p. 295 (illustrated) Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p. 300 Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Aux Sources de la Peinture: Aborigene, Musee du quai Branly, Paris, 2012
D’Lan DavidsonHead Aboriginal Art |
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28 May 2013 |
Melbourne
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