Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula
circa 1925-2001

PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula

circa 1925-2001
TRAVELLING WATER DREAMING WITH LIGHTNING (1971)

natural earth pigments and bondcrete on composition board
83 X 38CM

• Lot Sold $50,000 (Hammer Price)
• $61,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory (May-June 1971)
Geoffrey Bardon, Sydney 
Mrs Margaret Carnegie AO, Melbourne
The Anthony & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Australian Desert, Corpus Christi College, Melbourne, 8 May 1988 Bicentennial Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Lauiston Girls School, Melbourne, 7 October 1988 Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 30 September 2011 - 12 February 2012 Aux Sources de la Peinture: Aborigene, Musee du quai Branly, Paris, 9 October 2012 - 20 January 2013

Literature

Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Movement, The Miegunyah Press, 2004, p. 207 (illustrated) Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p. 262 (illustrated) Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, Aux Sources de la Peinture: Aborigene, Musee du quai Branly, Paris, 2012