Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka, born circa 1935, WEDGETAIL EAGLE DREAMING
Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka, born circa 1935, WEDGETAIL EAGLE DREAMINGEstimate $4,000 – $6,000
synthetic polymer paint on linen
bears artist's name and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number 900333 (partially obscured) on the reverse
181.5 BY 182.5CM
Provenance:
Painted at Kintore in 1990
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
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.42, cat.no.11 (iIlus.), pp.73-74
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1994, cat.11, p.39, (black and white illus.), pp.116-117 (illus.) pp. 110-111 (colour illus.)
This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate