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Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art - 14 October 2009  |  Melbourne

Lot 15
Donkeyman Lee Tjupurrula
(1922 - 1993)
WATI KUTJARI AT WILKINPA, 1991

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

180.0 x 120.0 cm



Estimate:
$15,000 - 20,000


Lot sold: $16,800 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Donkeyman Lee Tjupurrula
(1922 - 1993)
WATI KUTJARI AT WILKINPA, 1991

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

180.0 x 120.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists cat. 231/91

Provenance

Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Hunter Collection, Sydney
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, lot 126
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert; Paintings by Australian Artists from Papunya, Balgo Hills and Utopia, Union of Soviet Artists Gallery, Moscow, May – June 1991, and Museum of Ethnographic Art, St Petersburg, November 1991 – January 1992

Literature

Pizzi, G., Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert; Paintings by Australian Artists from Papunya, Balgo Hills and Utopia, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 1991, p. 61 (illus.)