Part 2: Important Aboriginal Art - 27 November 2013 | Melbourne
Lot 169
Old Walter Tjampitjinpa
(1912 - 1980)
WATER STORY, 1971
synthetic polymer paint and powder paint on composition board
25.5 x 71.5 cm
Estimate:
$12,000 - 18,000
Lot Details
Description
Old Walter Tjampitjinpa
(1912 - 1980)
WATER STORY, 1971
synthetic polymer paint and powder paint on composition board
25.5 x 71.5 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name and Stuart Art Centre consignment number 5037
Provenance
Executed at Papunya in October – November 1971
Consignment 5, painting number 37 to the Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs
Private collection, Alice Springs
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 June 2004, lot 202
Private collection, Sydney
Literature
Bardon, G., and Bardon J., Papunya, A Place made after the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Paintings Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2004, p. 341, diagram (as 'Snake Dreaming, 1971')