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Lot 132: EUBENA NAMPITJIN , BORN CIRCA 1920 WUNGADOR Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Est: $60,000 AUD - $80,000 AUD
Sotheby'sSydney, AustraliaOctober 20, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Dimensions

120 by 180 cm

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Paintings from Balgo Hills, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK, 1996
Dreamings - Tjukurrpa, Barbican Art Centre, London, UK, 1997
Dream Traces: A Celebration of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, 22 April - 22 May, 2003, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton, UK
Songlines, Mercer Art Gallery, 16 September 2005 - 16 January 2006, Harrogate, UK

Literature

Tucker, M (ed), Dream Traces: A Celebration of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2003, illus.

Provenance

Painted at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills) in 1996
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, cat. no.284/96
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Private collection

Notes

Cf. Tjalatjadu rockhole, 1996, in Morphy, H. and M. Smith Boles (eds.), Art from the Land: Dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe collection of Australian Aboriginal art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, 1999, p.177, pl.6.10; Wiritji rockhole, 1998, in the collection of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, in Perkins, H. and M. West (eds.), One Sun, One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, p.218; Walamalu Taltu, 2000, in the Laverty Collection, in Laverty, C., et al, Beyond Sacred: Recent painting from Australia's remote Aboriginal communities, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, p.127; Kaningarra, 2001, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, in Ryan, J. (ed.), Colour Power: Aboriginal Art post 1984, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004, p.49; and Wati Kutjarra, 2002, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, in Developing the collection: Acquisitions 2001-2004, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2004, p.38, illus.

Auction Details

Aboriginal Art

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Sotheby's
October 20, 2008, 06:30 PM AEST

118-122 Queen Street Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, 2025, AU