Lot 65: ANATJARI TJAKAMARRA CIRCA 1938-1992 | Kuningka (Western Quoll/Native Cat)

Name: ANATJARI TJAKAMARRA CIRCA 1938-1992 | Kuningka (Western Quoll/Native Cat)
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: d3e44048e3
Price: 35000 GBP

Est: £75,000 GBP - £100,000 GBP

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 10, 2015

Item Overview

Description

Bears artist’s name, title, catalogue number A731065 and date on Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Pty Ltd label on the reverse, together with a description of the story depicted and an annotated diagram

Dimensions

74.5cm by 54cm

Artist or Maker

Anatjari Tjakamarra

Medium

Synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board

Exhibited

Aboriginal Art from Papunyay,The Anvil Gallery, Albury, New South Wales 1974
A Myriad of Dreamings: 20th Century Aboriginal Art, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art at Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, October 5 - October 22, 1989, cat. no.56

Literature

Lauraine Diggins (ed.), A Myriad of Dreamings: 20th Century Aboriginal Art, Melbourne: Malakoff Fine Arts Press, 1989, p.59, pl.56 (illus.)
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2004, painting 430, p. 455, where the work carries the title ‘Kuningka’ Kangaroo Rat Dreaming (Version 3)

Provenance

Likely to have been painted at Yai Yai, the Pintupi outstation near Papunya in October 1973
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, catalogue number A731065
The Anvil Gallery, Albury, New South Wales, 1974
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbournerivate collection, United States of America
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June, 1998, lot 101

Private collection, acquired at the above sale

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Aboriginal Art - Including selected works from the Thomas Vroom Collection

Sotheby's

June 10, 2015, 02:30 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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