Brogus Tjapangati, born 1949, DIGGING FOR WITCHETTY GRUBS AT KUNATJARRAYI
Brogus Tjapangati, born 1949, DIGGING FOR WITCHETTY GRUBS AT KUNATJARRAYIEstimate $3,000 – $5,000
synthetic polymer paint on linen
bears Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number BT880656 on the reverse
152 BY 122CM
Provenance:
Painted at Papunya in 1988
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Tambaran Gallery, New York
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.39, cat.no.8 (iIlus.), pp.72-73
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1994, p.21, cat.no.8 (black and white illus.) pp.86-87 (colour illus.)
This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate