Important Australian + International Fine Art - 26 August 2015 | Sydney
Lot 91
Albert Namatjira
(1902 - 1959)
MACDONNELL RANGES, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, 1950
watercolour on paper
24.0 x 36.0 cm
Estimate:
$15,000 - 20,000
Lot sold: $25,620 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Albert Namatjira
(1902 - 1959)
MACDONNELL RANGES, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, 1950
watercolour on paper
24.0 x 36.0 cm
signed lower right: ALBERT NAMATJIRA
Provenance
Painted in 1950 and acquired by Father Tierney (Catholic Church), Alice Springs
Private collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above in 1983
Thence by descent
Private collection, New South Wales
Literature
Batty, J.D., Namatjira: Wanderer Between Two Worlds, Hodder and Stoughton, Melbourne, 1963, (illus. in documentary image, pl. 15)