Lot 157: PADDY TJAMATJI (JAMPIN) , CIRCA 1912-1996 UNTITLED Natural earth pigments and natural binders on plywood

Bears artist's name 'Paddy Chumpingee' (sic) on the reverse (now obscured by backing board) Natural earth pigments and natural binders on plywood

61 by 118 cm

Painted at warmun (Turkey Creek) in late 1984
Gifted to the vendor in early 1985 in Kununurra
Private collection

Cf. The composition features a nascent symmetry where a hill is depicted on each side of a central feature, usually a waterhole or a water course, a device employed by the artist to represent a number of sites including Mount House as in Jilili, big swamp near Mount House, 1983, and two hills on the Ord River on Ivanhoe and Carlton Hills Stations in Pukulmirri and Jukulmirri, Dreaming Hills, 1983, in Thomas, R. et al, Roads Cross: The paintings of Rover Thomas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1994, pp.30, 35, respectively; and Jilyili at Kurnkukurnku, 1985, in Caruana, W. (ed), Windows on the Dreaming: Aboriginal Paintings in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and Ellsyd Press, Sydney, 1989, p.173, plate 101, illus. These three works are in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia