Lot 63: UTA UTA TJANGALA CIRCA 1920-1990 | Untitled, Old Men’s Story

Name: UTA UTA TJANGALA CIRCA 1920-1990 | Untitled, Old Men’s Story
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 0054bf9a80
Price: 15000 GBP

Est: £30,000 GBP - £40,000 GBP

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 10, 2015

Item Overview

Description

Bears Stuart Art Centre catalogue number 12032 on the reverse

Dimensions

46cm by 61cm

Artist or Maker

Uta Uta Tjangala

Medium

Synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board

Exhibited

Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 September 2011-12 February 2012; Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 9 October 2012-27 January 2013

Literature

Bardon, G., and Bardon, J., Papunya: A Place Made After the Story - The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegenyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, painting 341, p. 387 (illus.)
Ryan, J. and Batty, P., Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, p. 139 (illus.)

Cf Medicine Story (version 3), 1971, in the collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, illustrated in Bardon and Bardon, 2004, p.306, painting 248, and in Benjamin, R and A.C. Weislogel (eds), Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal
Paintings from Papunya, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, 2009, p.88, catalogue number 8, for paintings by the artist that features a similar composition.

Provenance

Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory in 1972
Painting 32, consignment 12 to the Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs
Private collection, Adelaide
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 69
Private collection

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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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