Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Rock Wallaby Dreaming, 1989
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May 25, 09:41 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Circa 1932 - 2002
Rock Wallaby Dreaming, 1989
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Bears catalogue number CF - 8908 - A, and other indecipherable inscriptions on the reverse
45 ½ in by 31 in (116 cm by 78.9 cm)
The painting is sold with the original Centre for Aboriginal Artists documentation, catalogue number CPT 8908-01, signed by Anthony Wallis, then Managing Director of Aboriginal Art Australia
For further reading about the impact Clifford Possum had on the Aboriginal art world, see Vivien Johnson, Tradition Today: Indigenous Art In Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004, p. 146.
"Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri joined Papunya Tula Artists in February 1972 and was one of their founding directors. He rapidly distinguished himself as one of the company's most accomplished and inventive artists, an exponent of striking, multi-layered and meticulously rendered visual effects. He was chosen by Papunya Tula Artists to paint, with his brother Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, the large canvas that became Warlugulong, 1976, for a BBC documentary, Desert Dreamers' [...] Tjapaltjarri was chairperson of Papunya Tula Artists during the early 1980s. In 1988, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London organised a retrospective - it was Tjapaltjarri's first solo exhibition and the first time an Australian Aboriginal artist had been honoured in this way by the international art world. Over the next decade he would become the most widely travelled Aboriginal artist of his generation and an ambassador for Aboriginal art around the world." (ibid.)
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