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Lot 90: ALAN WINDEROO TJAKAMARRA CIRCA 1920-2003 ARTIST'S COUNTRY NEAR LAPPI-LAPPI

Est: $18,000 AUD - $25,000 AUDSold:
Sotheby'sMelbourne, AustraliaNovember 24, 2009

Item Overview

Description


bears artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 517/90 on the reverse

Dimensions

180 BY 120CM

Medium

synthetic polymer paint on linen

Provenance

Painted at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills) in 1990
Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), Western Australia
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Private collection, USA
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 25 July, 2005, lot 95
The Austcorp Group Limited Art Collection

Notes



Cf. For a contemporaneous painting of the same site, see Pillalparu Dreaming, 1990, in James Cowan, Wirrimanu: Aboriginal Art from the Balgo Hills, Sydney: Craftsman House, 1994, p.123, pl.155, illus. For a later painting of the same subject, see Lappi Lappi in the Tanami Desert, 1996, in the Kluge-Ruhe Collection, illustrated in Howard Morphy and M. Smith Boles, Art of the Land: Dialogues of the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1999, p.189, pl.6.21

Auction Details

Aboriginal and Oceanic Art

by
Sotheby's
November 24, 2009, 02:00 PM GMT

926 High Street Armadale, Melbourne, ACT, 3143, AU