Matthew Gill Tjupurrula, born 1960, BUSH TURKEY DREAMING
Matthew Gill Tjupurrula, born 1960, BUSH TURKEY DREAMINGEstimate $400 – $600
- Lot Sold $400 (Hammer Price)
- $480 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
synthetic polymer paint on linen
bears artist's name, catalogue number 174/89 and location on the reverse
91 BY 91CM
Provenance:
Painted at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills) in 1989
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills
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.46, cat.no.15 (iIlus.), p.75
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1994, p.33, cat.no.15 (black and white illus.), pp. 100-101 (colour illus.)