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Aboriginal Art from the Luczo Family Collection - 19 October 2016  |  Melbourne

Lot 17
Paddy Henry (Teeampi) Ripingimpi
(c.1925 – 1999)
UNTITLED (TIWI FIGURE), c.1975

natural earth pigments on carved ironwood

76.0 cm height



Estimate:
$5,000 – 7,000


Lot sold: $4,636 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Paddy Henry (Teeampi) Ripingimpi
(c.1925 – 1999)
UNTITLED (TIWI FIGURE), c.1975

natural earth pigments on carved ironwood

76.0 cm height

Provenance

Created on Melville Island, Northern Territory
Private collection, Darwin
Sotheby's, Sydney, 24 July 2007, lot 203
The Luczo Family Collection, USA

Literature

Isaacs, J., Tiwi: Art / History / Culture, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2012, p. 215 (illus.)