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Important Australian Indigenous Art - 26 March 2024  |  Melbourne

Lot 65
Kaapa Tjampitjinpa
(c.1926 - 1989)
WATER DREAMING AT MIKANTJI, 1983

synthetic polymer paint on linen

100.5 x 61.0 cm



Estimate:
$8,000 – $12,000


Lot sold: $13,500 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Kaapa Tjampitjinpa
(c.1926 - 1989)
WATER DREAMING AT MIKANTJI, 1983

synthetic polymer paint on linen

100.5 x 61.0 cm

bears inscription verso: Papunya Tula Artists cat. K830403

Provenance

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Private collection, Victoria


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists which states:
'This painting depicts a ground design for the celebration of the Water Dreaming at a site called Mikantji, west of Yuendumu Settlement. The mythological Rain Dreaming trails can be traced over hundreds of kilometres. It is "marked" by a series of rockholes, claypans and soakage waters, and each site is considered to have come into being at the time of the ancestral creative storms. The arcs represent boomerangs and the straight bars are ceremonial body scars.'