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Important Aboriginal Works of Art - 25 May 2016  |  Melbourne

Lot 90
Donkeyman Lee Tjupurrula
(1922 – 1993)
WATI KUTJARI AT WILKINPA, 1991

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

180.0 x 120.0 cm



Estimate:
$12,000 – 15,000


Private sale


Lot Details

Description

Donkeyman Lee Tjupurrula
(1922 – 1993)
WATI KUTJARI AT WILKINPA, 1991

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

180.0 x 120.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists cat. 231/91

Provenance

Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Hunter collection, Sydney (label attached verso)
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, lot 126
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 14 October 2009, lot 15
Private collection, New South Wales

Exhibited

Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert: Paintings by Australian Artists from Papunya, Balgo Hills and Utopia, Union of Soviet Artists Gallery, Moscow, May – June 1991, and Museum of Ethnographic Art, St Petersburg, November 1991 – January 1992

Literature

Pizzi, G., Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert; Paintings by Australian Artists from Papunya, Balgo Hills and Utopia, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 1991, p. 61 (illus.)