Bessie Nakamarra Sims, born 1932, WAPITI JUKURRPA
Bessie Nakamarra Sims, born 1932, WAPITI JUKURRPAEstimate $1,000 – $1,500
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
bears artist's name, title and Warlukurlangu Artists catalogue number 1/89 on the reverse
76.3 BY 60.5CM
Provenance:
Painted at Yuendumu in 1989
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu
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.59, cat.no.28 (iIlus.), p.80 Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1994, cat.no.28, pp. 126-127 (colour illus.)
This painting is sold with an accompanying Warlukurlangu Artists certificate