Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 17, 2024
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Tim Johnson, Bush Food, 1983, Synthetic Polymer Paints on Board, 71.3cm x 55.9cm
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Tim Johnson Bush Food, 1983 Synthetic Polymer Paints on Board
Bargain Hunt Auctions
Nov. 12, 2024
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI, ROCK WALLABY DREAMING AT KARLAL-KINTJA, 1977
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI c.1936-1984 ROCK WALLABY DREAMING AT KARLAL-KINTJA, 1977 acrylic on canvas 164 x 47.5 cm; 167 x 50 cm (framed) PROVENANCE Papunya Tula Artists, NT Cat No. TL77627 Tim and Vivien Johnson Collection Private Collection, SA Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists ©Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri / Copyright Agency, 2024 Despite his initial reservations, Tim Leura became one of the four founding members of the Western Desert art movement. His desire to straddle the cultural divide, which had impelled him to join Bardon in the painting venture, was also the source of a deep melancholy, often discernible in his art. Sitting in his own corner of the painting room with his board across his knees, Leura initially followed the ordered and symmetrical style that typified his Anmatyerre Arrernte tribal group, and which proved appealing to early buyers of desert paintings. Drawn to subdued tones, mixing colours, dotting onto wet grounds, and blending outlines, the shapes in his works would often run into each other. He had a partiality for balance and clarity of design, and though he did make a creative departure from strict topographical and totemic mapping, many of his works such as this example, displayed an elegance of tracery and effects that eddied beneath and between the surface dotting, thereby creating a depth of suggested, though camouflaged, meaning. This piece is a fine example of an Australian Aboriginal artwork.
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art)
May. 07, 2024
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984) Rock Wallaby Dreaming at Karlal-Kintja, 1977
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984) Rock Wallaby Dreaming at Karlal-Kintja, 1977 synthetic polymer paint on linen 164.0 x 47.5cm (64 9/16 x 18 11/16in).
Bonhams
Apr. 28, 2024
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI (c1929 - 1984), Untitled, acrylic on canvas board, 55 x 71 cm, inscribed verso, Cat no. CAAC246/42, with copy of purchase receipt
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI (c1929 - 1984) Untitled acrylic on canvas board 55 x 71 cm inscribed verso, Cat no. CAAC246/42, with copy of purchase receipt
Lawsons
Jun. 20, 2023
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri - Lalradjingya Big Rocky Hill Possum & Woman Corroboree, 1977
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
Despite his initial reservations, Tim Leura became one of the four founding members of the Western Desert art movement. His desire to straddle the cultural divide, which had impelled him to join Bardon in the painting venture, was also the source of a deep melancholy, often discernible in his art. Sitting in his own corner of the painting room with his board across his knees, Leura initially followed the ordered and symmetrical style that typified his Anmatyerre Arrernte tribal group, and which proved appealing to early buyers of desert paintings. Drawn to subdued tones, mixing colours, dotting onto wet grounds, and blending outlines, the shapes in his works would often run into each other. He had a partiality for balance and clarity of design, and though he did make a creative departure from strict topographical and totemic mapping, many of his works such as this example, displayed an elegance of tracery and effects that eddied beneath and between the surface dotting, thereby creating a depth of suggested, though camouflaged, meaning.
Cooee Art
Mar. 22, 2023
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI, PERENTIE (LIZARD), 1980
Est: $8,000 - $10,000
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI (c.1929 - 1984) PERENTIE (LIZARD), 1980 synthetic polymer paint on carved wood 94.0 x 14.0 x 9.0 cm PROVENANCE Purchased by the artist Tim Johnson, directly from the artist while working for Papunya Tula Artists in 1981 Tim and Vivien Johnson collection, Sydney Private collection, Sydney EXHIBITED Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 28 November 2007 – 3 February 2008 LITERATURE Johnson, V., Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, 2007, p. 130 (illus.) © Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri/Copyright Agency 2023
Deutscher and Hackett
Apr. 11, 2022
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI (c.1929-1984) Grandfather's Black Hill 1976 synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI (c.1929-1984) Grandfather's Black Hill 1976 synthetic polymer paint on canvas inscribed verso with artist's name, Papunya Tula Artists cat. no. TL761133 and Avant Galleries cat. no. 165 163.5 x 47cm PROVENANCE: Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs Avant Galleries, Melbourne The Kelton Foundation, United States of America, acquired 1994
Leonard Joel
Aug. 24, 2021
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984) Euro Hunting, 1973
Est: $55,000 - $60,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984) Euro Hunting, 1973 synthetic polymer paint on composition board 43.5 x 57.5cm (17 1/8 x 22 5/8in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Oct. 20, 2020
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri - Love Story , 1979
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
This painting depicts an aspect of the Love Story narrative that became his brother, Clifford Possumâs, leitmotif. It is a tale of incestuous lust and the magical spells cast by an old Tjungurrayi man in order to seduce a woman of the wrong skin. To achieve his illicit end he uses sacred songs and a hairstring spindle made from his own hair and a pair of thin sticks. Overcome by lust he drops the hair string that he is braiding and it scatters like love on the wind. A whirlwind blows in an attempt to destroy his love magic but to no avail. He takes the woman for his own. It is an indiscretion for which he will eventually be punished. Leura was steeped in ancient lore and, despite his initial reservations, he became one of the four founding members of the Western Desert art movement in 1970. He became invaluable to Geoffrey Bardon as a friend, assistant, and interpreter. A man of whom Bardon wrote âhe is my dearest and closest friend in the Western Desertâ. While today Clifford Possum is the better known of the two âbrothersâ, Tim Leura is recognised as having been Possumâs spiritual mentor and instrumental in the development of Possumâs talent and technique.
Cooee Art
Jul. 19, 2020
Attributed to Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri,
Est: $200 - $400
Carved Hardwood Snake, beautifully carved with scales, with inlaid bone eyes, nice patina, length 95cm
Aalders Auctions
Mar. 18, 2020
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI, (c.1929 – 1984), POSSUM CEREMONY NEAR NAPPERBY, c.1973, synthetic polymer powder paint on board
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI (c.1929 – 1984) POSSUM CEREMONY NEAR NAPPERBY, c.1973 synthetic polymer powder paint on board SIGNED: bears inscription verso: artist's name, size, and Papunya Tula Artists cat. TL730604 and description of some of the iconography on the reverse DIMENSIONS: 36.0 x 53.0 cm PROVENANCE: Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above July 1973 Collection of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves, Melbourne Bonhams, Sydney, 28 May 2012, lot 29 Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED: Blue Chip VIII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 7 March – 1 April 2006, cat. 29 (label attached verso)
Deutscher and Hackett
Feb. 03, 2019
Attributed Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri Carved Snake,
Est: $400 - $800
carved with scales and poker work banding, using natural colour of the wood, l 63cm
Aalders Auctions
Nov. 27, 2018
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (c.1936-1984) Emu Ceremonial Dreaming 1972
Est: $80,000 - $100,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri was the close cousin brother of Clifford Possum. They grew up in the same house hold under the sharp eye of Tim’s father, One Pound Jimmy Tjungarrayi and shared the country around Mount Allan and Napperby Cattle Stations. Both men were highly educated in the tribal customs and rituals of the region and when Geoff Bardon started buying painting from the senior lawmen in Papunya, both men realised an opportunity. This very early board was first purchased by Northern Territory Administration Patrol Officer Keith Smith and referred to then as Rainmaker Bird Ceremony. It was painted in February 1972, at the same time as its sister painting, Clifford Possum’s Emu Coroboree Man, the first painting Possum painted in the Papunya shed specifically for Bardon. There are many other examples to confirm that Tim Leura often created motifs, compositions and graphic elements that Clifford in turn used in his own work. Leura taking on the role of creative director and Possum following up with a stronger and more conceptual graphic representation. Comparing the two paintings, the similarities of the dancing figure are obvious. The body paint elements are identical as are the pubic feather belt, the behind the back emu tjurunga and similar emu feather capped headdresses. The emu nests are also displayed, the male emu is the guardian and protector of the eggs on the nest and the birds kneeling position is indicated in both pictures. Despite its previous attribution by Sotheby’s as Untitled (Rainmaker Bird Dreaming) this is most definitely a depiction of an Emu Dreaming. The object being held behind the performers back bares large Emu footprints. Also the footprints in this work are most definitely Emu. This is confirmed when the Emu tracks arrive at various roundels and the Emu ‘kneels’ on the rear of its legs, leaving elongated furrows in the sand. The site is given as Ngalikulong , North of Wakulpa, based on the Vivien Johnson documentation on Clifford’s piece. The differences between the two paintings are startling in that Tim Leura has illustrated astronomical references to the Dreamtime dimension by literal white dotting and star alignment whereas Clifford Possum shows the same complex concept by a patch of multi-planed parallel lines. They both show sacred objects in abundance, Tim’s display a body paint design, Clifford showing the actual emu eggs. For whatever reason neither artist commonly continued on with painting this Dreaming. This work is rare, important and a vital piece of art history, especially relevant to the connoisseur interested in development of the art movement and its many hidden meanings. Reference: The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri by Vivien Johnson, 1994 Craftsman House, plate 3.
Cooee Art
Nov. 27, 2018
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (c.1936-1984) Love Story 1979
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
This painting depicts another aspect of the Love Story that became Clifford Possum’s leitmotif. It is a tale of incestuous lust and the magical spells cast by an old Tjungurrayi man in order to seduce a woman of the wrong skin. To achieve his elicit end he uses sacred songs and a hairstring spindle that he made from his own hair and a pair of thin sticks. Overcome by lust he drops the hair string that he is braiding and it scatters like love on the wind. A whirlwind blows in an attempt to destroy his love magic but it is to no avail. He takes the woman for his own. It is an indiscretion for which he will be eventually punished. Leura was steeped in ancient lore and, despite his initial reservations, he became one of the four founding members of the Western Desert art movement. He became invaluable to Geoffrey Bardon as friend, assistant, and interpreter. A man of whom Bardon wrote ‘he is my dearest and closest friend in the Western Desert’. While today Clifford Possum is the better known of the two ‘brothers’, Tim Leura is recognised as having been Possum’s spiritual mentor and instrumental in the development of Possum’s talent and technique.
Cooee Art
Nov. 27, 2018
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (c.1936-1984) Women's Love Magic 1975
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Tim Leura was steeped in ancient lore and, despite his initial reservations, he became one of the four founding members of the Western Desert art movement. He became invaluable to Geoffrey Bardon as friend, assistant, and interpreter. A man of whom Bardon wrote ‘he is my dearest and closest friend in the Western Desert’. While today Clifford Possum is the better known of the two ‘brothers’, Tim Leura is recognised as having been Possum’s spiritual mentor and instrumental in the development of Possum’s talent and technique. This is a representation of a very special activity undertaken by single women. The women (sisters) here are possum ancestors at a tjililipa tjila, a single women's camp, at Lookura, west of Napperby Station. The central concentric circles are painted on the women's breasts, the two arcs are painted around her breasts, and the two longer arcs painted from her ribs to her hips. The special decoration is applied to accompany a song and dance that the women have been taught in order to attract a man. The display is made whilst eligible men are in view. Utensils accompany the design, the mani mani stick defining one of the women's functions in hooking fruit from trees.* * Story recorded by Janet Wilson, art adviser at Papunya Tula in 1975.
Cooee Art
May. 21, 2015
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI (C.1929-1984)
Est: €4,500 - €5,000
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI (C.1929-1984) REVE FEU DANS LE BUSH A WARLUKURLANG / BUSHFIRE DREAMING AT WARLUKURLONG, 1974 Acrylique sur toile 61 cm x 45,5 cm
Cornette de Saint-Cyr
May. 13, 2014
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI circa 1934-1984 Euro Dreaming (circa 1973-1974) synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI circa 1934-1984 Euro Dreaming (circa 1973-1974) synthetic polymer paint on composition board 61 x 45.5 cm PROVENANCE Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory Robert Bruce McElroy The Margaret Carnegie Collection, Victoria Museum Art International, Adelaide The John W. Kluge Collection, United States of America, acquired 1991 By descent Private Collection, United States of America PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE JOHN W. KLUGE COLLECTION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Smith & Singer
Nov. 27, 2013
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri c1929 - 1984, UNTITLED, 1973 synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri c1929 - 1984, UNTITLED, 1973 synthetic polymer paint on composition board DIMENSIONS: 60.0 x 45.0 cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, purchased in Darwin in 1973 Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane Private collection, Queensland Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 25 March 2009, lot 91 Private collection, United States of America
Deutscher and Hackett
Aug. 20, 2013
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984)
Est: AUD60,000 - AUD80,000
Travelling honey ant dreaming - (version 7) 1972 synthetic polymer paint on composition board 45.5 x 30.5cm (17 15/16 x 12in).
Bonhams
May. 28, 2013
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984 CENTRE CIRCLE OF FIRE (1974) synthetic polymer paint on artist board
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984 CENTRE CIRCLE OF FIRE (1974) synthetic polymer paint on artist board 76.5 X 60.5CM PROVENANCE Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory Bruce McElroy, Northern Territory Bortingnon Kalamunda Gallery of Man, Western Australia The Anthony Knight OAM & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION
Smith & Singer
May. 28, 2013
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984 EURO DREAMING (1973) synthetic polymer paint on artist board
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984 EURO DREAMING (1973) synthetic polymer paint on artist board 60.5 X 45CM PROVENANCE Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory Bruce McElroy, Northern Territory (stock no.26) Bortingnon Kalamunda Gallery of Man, Western Australia The Anthony Knight OAM & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED Circle Path Meander: Central Australian Paintings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 14 December 1986 - 1987 PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION
Smith & Singer
May. 28, 2013
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri circa 1929-1984 YAM DREAMING (VERSION 1) (1972) natural earth pigments and bondcrete on composition board
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri circa 1929-1984 YAM DREAMING (VERSION 1) (1972) natural earth pigments and bondcrete on composition board 40 X 30CM PROVENANCE Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory (February - March 1972) Private Collection, Melbourne Private Collection, Darwin The Anthony Knight OAM & Beverly Knight Collection, Melbourne LITERATURE Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya - A Place Made after the Story: the Beginnings of the Western Desert Movement, Miegunyah Press, 2004, p.321 (illustrated) PROPERTY FROM THE ANTHONY & BEVERLY KNIGHT COLLECTION
Smith & Singer
May. 09, 2013
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI, (1929-1984), Hunting Rock
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI, (1929-1984), Hunting Rock Wallaby (Waru), 1973, synthetic polymer paint on board, 43.5 x 23.0 cm, This painting is accompanied by an annotated hand drawn diagram attached verso. It depicts the hunting of the rock wallaby (waru). Two hunters wait on each side of the big rock, while other people with yam sticks make noise to scare the rock wallaby toward the hunters.|(c) Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd (Sydney)/VISCOPY Australia
Lawson~Menzies
Nov. 19, 2012
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984)
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
Untitled (Ancestral Hunter) bears artist's name on the reverse synthetic polymer paint on canvas board 56 x 46cm
Bonhams
Nov. 19, 2012
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984)
Est: £40,000 - £60,000
Wild Peanut Dreaming bears artist's name, title and Stuart Art Centre consignment number 4012 on a Stuart Art Centre label on the reverse synthetic polymer powder paint on board 51 x 30cm
Bonhams
Oct. 28, 2012
Attributed to Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri Untitled,
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Attributed to Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri Untitled, 1975 synthetic polymer paint on canvas board 61 x 46 cm
Mossgreen Auctions
Jun. 06, 2012
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri Witchetty Dreaming , circa
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri Witchetty Dreaming , circa 1973-74 * synthetic polymer paint on canvasboard 61 x 45 cm
Mossgreen Auctions
Jun. 05, 2012
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri circa 1929-1984 BUSHFIRE TRAVELLING DREAMING (1973) synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri circa 1929-1984 BUSHFIRE TRAVELLING DREAMING (1973) synthetic polymer paint on composition board 41.3 X 26.7CM PROVENANCE Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory (August 1972 - August 1973) Museum Art International, South Australia The John Kluge Collection, United States of America (1996) By descent Private Collection, United States of America LITERATURE Geoffrey and James Bardon, Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p. 228 (illustrated) Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri was the most poetic of the founding Papunya Tula Artists. While the best Papunya painting is often marked by the strength of the artist's attack, it is the delicacy of touch that distinguishes Leura's work. He delighted in the tendency of paint to take its own form, mirroring the infinite complexity of nature. Leura explored the possibilities that lay between the formal bilateral symmetry of the corroboree ground and the transient textures of his country. By 1972, Tim Leura, together with his bother Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, was applying veils of over-dotting to encrypt and obscure the iconographic bones of his paintings. However Leura pursued the possibilities further, using washes of transparent paint together with a loose mosaic of dots that together became a permeable membrane through which the iconographic bones are glimpsed underpinning the surface. The artist created a visual metaphor, in which symbolic elements that represent the certainty of the Dreaming, are enlivened by ephemeral washes and over dotting capturing the ongoing influence of the ancestors on the contemporary landscape. Whereas Leura's compositions were derived from an inherited vocabulary of signs, he let the potential of acrylic paint deepen his thoughts. As well as reprising the designs handed down from senior relatives, Leura's paintings are metaphysical ponderings on life and the circular nature of time. While his palette was derived from the earth, he painted a fleeting world of song and memory. He used the viscosity and random, accidental capacity of paint to mimic the most cryptic qualities of his world, the drifting smoke of fires and the infinitely distant light of a night sky. Taken in isolation Bushfire Travelling Dreaming is a wonderful example of Leura's lightness of touch. The painting's full significance becomes apparent when viewed in the context of later works on the same theme. The artist communicates an episode during the passage of a bushfire, ignited by Lungkata the Blue-tongue Lizard, on sensing his two sons had killed and eaten a sacred kangaroo. Lungkata then sent the fire in pursuit of his sons, who zigzagged across the country in their vain attempt to avoid the flames of the father's vengeance. Many artists have represented the Warlugulong story however it is the versions produced by Tim Leura and his brother Clifford Possum that demand most attention. The episode imagined in Bushfire Travelling Dreaming provided an ideal subject for the brothers to consider how to represent a temporal sequence. Their challenge was to show how the bushfire passed across the pre-existing traces of travelling possum ancestors. Leura has done this by showing the sinuous lines, made by the dragging tails of the possums, partially obscured by a grey-green ash-bed that has fallen across their path. Clifford Possum also represented the same passage in the radically cropped Bush-fire 11 1972 (National Gallery of Australia). Tim Leura and Clifford Possum were rehearsing sequences that would subsequently come together in more ambitious compositions. The story was the centerpiece for Warlugulong 1976 (The Art Gallery of New South Wales) a collaborative painting by the brothers and an acclaimed masterpiece of topographic narrative. The following year Clifford Possum extended the story to encompass the final demise of the brothers and their consumption by the fire in the monumental conclusion to the series, Warlugulong 1977 (National Gallery of Australia). John Kean (1) Based on an excerpt from the author's biography of the artist: John Kean, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, in Judith Ryan & Philip Batty (eds), Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, pp. 180-182 (2) Warlukurlangu Artists' Aboriginal Corporationis based at Yuendumu and derives its name from the site (alternate spelling Warlugulong) at which Lungkata ignited the fire depicted in the current work. Many Warlukurlangu artists have painted their own distinctive versions of the story OTHER NOTES GST is applicable to hammer price of this lot PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE JOHN W. KLUGE COLLECTION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Smith & Singer
May. 28, 2012
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984)
Est: -
Possum Ceremony near Napperby bears artist's name, dimensions and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number TC730609 as well as description of some of the iconography on the reverse synthetic polymer powder paint on board 35.2 x 52.4cm
Bonhams
May. 28, 2012
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984)
Est: -
Camp Scene Near Napperby synthetic polymer powder paint on board 52.3 x 44.7cm
Bonhams
May. 28, 2012
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1929-1984)
Est: -
Teaching Little Children bears artist's name, tribe, date and catalogue number TL735808 on Papunya Tula Artists label on the reverse synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board 60.5 x 40.5cm
Bonhams
Oct. 18, 2011
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984 UNTITLED (1973) synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984 UNTITLED (1973) synthetic polymer paint on composition board 43 X 46CM PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist, Papunya (1974) Marjorie Broward, United states of America Private Collection, United States of America OTHER NOTES GST is applicable to the hammer price
Smith & Singer
Oct. 18, 2011
Attributed to Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984 SNAKE (CIRCA 1969) carved hardwood, pigments and seeds
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Attributed to Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929-1984 SNAKE (CIRCA 1969) carved hardwood, pigments and seeds 80CM LONG PROVENANCE Acquired from the Barrow Creek Store, Northern Territory (1969) Merl Byrne, Northern Territory Private Collection, Queensland
Smith & Singer
May. 22, 2011
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1936-1984) Papunya Tula 1975 acrylic on card
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (circa 1936-1984) Papunya Tula 1975 acrylic on card Provenance: Papunya Tula Art, Alice Springs (stock TL 75001) Papunya Tula Art Certificate of Authenticity signed by Janet Wilson on verso Note: According to the certificate on the verso, this work depicts Papunya Tula, which is a hill on the outskirts of the Papunya settlement, where the honey ant ancestors first appeared. 'Tula' refers to a large chamber under the hill, above which corroborees enacting the journeys of the honey ant ancestors are enacted. The tula is represented by the central circle, while half circles around this indicate the honey ant ancestors. However, the honey ants themselves are realistically depicted, with their tracks trailing away behind them. The wavy lines extending to the corners of the painting represent underground chambers leading from the tula. 29 x 35cm
Bay East Auctions
May. 18, 2011
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI MALA (ROCK WALLABY) STORY,
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI MALA (ROCK WALLABY) STORY, c1973 30.0 x 56.5 cm synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 24, 2009
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI 1929 - 1984 POSSUM WOMEN'S DREAMING
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
bears artist's name, title and date on the reverse and bears artist's name, title, date, medium and size on Utopia Art Sydney label on the reverse
Sotheby's
Sep. 26, 2009
'Lalradjingyp Big Rocky Hill Possum & Woman
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
'Lalradjingyp Big Rocky Hill Possum & Woman Corroboree.' Papunya Tula cat no.# TL778(3?)44 verso. Provenance: Estate of Peter (Richard) Johnson & Jane Johnson.
Davidson Auctions
Jul. 20, 2009
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929 - 1984 BUSHFIRE DREAMING synthetic polymer paint on canvas board
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
bears artist's name, language group, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number TL790116 on the reverse synthetic polymer paint on canvas board
Sotheby's
Jul. 20, 2009
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri 1929 - 1984 UNTITLED synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
bears Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number TL730915 on the reverse synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Sotheby's
Aug. 18, 2008
TJAPALTJARRI, Tim Leura Rain Ceremony Dreaming
Est: $12,000 - $15,000
TJAPALTJARRI, Tim Leura Rain Ceremony Dreaming Poster paint with PVA Bondcrete glue on hardboard Completed April 1972 60 x 40
Mossgreen Auctions
Aug. 18, 2008
TJAPALTJARRI, Tim Leura Untitled Synthetic polymer
Est: $22,000 - $25,000
TJAPALTJARRI, Tim Leura Untitled Synthetic polymer paint on board 1979 71 x 60
Mossgreen Auctions
Aug. 18, 2008
TJAPALTJARRI, Tim Leura Untitled Circa 1976 45.5 x
Est: $8,000 - $10,000
TJAPALTJARRI, Tim Leura Untitled Circa 1976 45.5 x 66
Mossgreen Auctions
Nov. 25, 2007
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI , CIRCA 1929-1984 UNTITLED - PAINTED SHIELD Synthetic polymer powder paint on carved beanwood
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Synthetic polymer powder paint on carved beanwood
Sotheby's
Jul. 24, 2007
c - TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI , MALA (ROCK WALLABY) STORY c.1973
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Bears artist's name 'Tim Jabaljari' (sic.), and 'Papunya' on the reverse Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Sotheby's
Jul. 24, 2007
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI , RAIN CORROBOREE 1971
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
Bears artist's name 'Jimmy Leura Jabaljari' (sic.), title, consignment number 6005, and Stuart Art Centre card with a diagram of the story depicted on the reverse of frame Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Sotheby's
Jul. 24, 2007
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI , HONEY ANT DREAMING 1972
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
Synthetic polymer paint and synthetic binder on composition board
Sotheby's
Jul. 24, 2007
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI , TEACHING LITTLE CHILDREN 1973
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
Bears Papunya Tula Artists label with artist's name, language group, title, date, and catalogue number TL735808 on the reverse Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Sotheby's
Jul. 31, 2006
TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI CIRCA 1929-1984
Est: $70,000 - $100,000
KANGAROO AT RITJULNYA 1982 MEASUREMENTS 152 by 181 cm Bears Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number TL820209 on the reverse Synthetic polymer paint on linen PROVENANCE Painted at Papunya in February 1982 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs Gifted to the vendor by Mr John Truscott AO Collection of Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE Cf. For an earlier painting on a similar scale and with an equally heraldic type of composition with lines radiating from large roundels see 'Kooralia', 1980, in the collection of the Art Gallery of the New South Wales, in Perkins, H. et. al., Tradition Today: Indigenous Art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004, p. 151, illus. and in Perkins, H. and H. Fink (eds.), Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with Papunya Tula Artists, Sydney, 2000, p. 79 Leura had a passion for mapping his country as is evident in his oeuvre; an activity made more urgent by his sense of loss and depression as he saw Aboriginal culture and ancestral lands being eroded as the influence of Europeans spread throughout the country. Kooralia and Ritjulnya are Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) sites around Napperby Station where Tim Leura was born and grew up. They appear in the comprehensive map drawn by Tim Leura and Geoffrey Bardon in 1971 of the artist's Tjukurrpa sites around Napperby (reproduced in Bardon, G., Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1991, pp.3 and 4; and again in Bardon, G. and J. Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p.58). Ritjulnya (spelt 'Riurn' on the map) is adjacent to Mara Mara where the ancestral Emu lives. Note the emu tracks leading to and from the central roundel in the painting 'Kangaroo at Ritjulnya' is one of a number of large, brooding ? even melancholic ? works created by Tim Leura in the latter part of his career. The patchwork of colours, in particular the use of colours mixed or layered with greys, blacks and white, creates a hazy, smoky effect - much like Leura's paintings of bushfires, and those of his brother Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Leura's technique of painting wet into wet so that the coloured dots would be absorbed into the black or darker colours of the ground enhanced this effect. Despite this atmosphere, the subject of this painting indicates the bounty of natural resources in the landscape. In this way the painting can be seen as a complementary work to 'Men's camps at Lyrrpurrung Ngturra', 1979, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia (illustrated in Caruana, W., Aboriginal Art, World of Art Series, Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2003, p.125, plate 106) which laments the absence of big game such as kangaroo and emu as a result of the incursions of the pastoral industry This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate that reads; 'The Kangaroo Dreaming site of Ritjulnya west from Napperby Station is shown in this painting. The roundels with adjacent U-shapes show the hunters sitting at water-holes waiting to catch the kangaroos. All lines leading from the roundels show the tracks made by the men as they move about the area. The tracks of the Kangaroo are shown and the artist has also shown emu tracks'\
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