Kurt Leonard Japanangka Granites, born circa 1957, KANAKURLANGU JUKURRPA
Kurt Leonard Japanangka Granites, born circa 1957, KANAKURLANGU JUKURRPAEstimate $2,000 – $3,000
synthetic polymer paint on linen
bears artist's name 'Kurtis Granites' (sic) on the reverse and the number 397188 on edge of canvas
151.6 by 121.7CM
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.57, cat.no.26 (iIlus.), p.79
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1994, cat.no.26 pp.122-123 (colour illus.)
This painting is sold with an accompanying Warlukurlangu Artists certificate