Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art - 4 April 2012 | Melbourne
Lot 69
George Tjapanangka
born 1938
MUUMU SWAMP, 1983
synthetic polymer paint on canvas board
30.0 x 40.0 cm
Estimate:
$1,500 - 2,500
Lot sold: $1,320 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
George Tjapanangka
born 1938
MUUMU SWAMP, 1983
synthetic polymer paint on canvas board
30.0 x 40.0 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name, title and Papunya Tula Artists cat. GT831228
Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane (label attached verso)
Private collection, Queensland
Catalogue text
A copy of the Bellas Gallery exhibition catalogue states: 'Muumu is a swamp North West of Kintore, a Pintupi settlement about 20km from the Western Australian border where mungilpa, a bush food is plentiful. The circles in the painting indicate the camps of the men involved in the ceremony.'