Louisa Napaljarri Lawson, born circa 1931, WARNA MANU NGARLKIRDI JUKURRPA (SNAKE AND WITCHETTY GRUB DREAMING),
Louisa Napaljarri Lawson, born circa 1931, WARNA MANU NGARLKIRDI JUKURRPA (SNAKE AND WITCHETTY GRUB DREAMING),Estimate $4,000 – $6,000
- Lot Sold $3,600 (Hammer Price)
- $4,320 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Inscribed 'Kunajarrayi' and bears artist's name, title and number 65 on the reverse, 171.5 BY 151CM, Provenance: Painted at Lajamanu in 1989 Donald Kahn Collection, Exhibited: Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, 1991; Carolino Augusteum Museum, Salzburg, The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Naprstkovo Museum, Prague and The Museum of Ethnology, Warsaw during 1992-1993 Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 26 July-16 October 1994 Australian Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert- The Donald Kahn Collection, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 3 December 1994-28 January 1995 Desert Dreaming: Australian Aboriginal Art, Albertina, Vienna, 15 June - 26 August 2007, Literature: Geoffrey Bardon and Vivien Johnson, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Miami: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1991, p.48, cat.no.17 (iIlus.), p.76 Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1994, p.30, cat.no.17 (black and white illus.), pp.104-105 (colour illus.)