Water and Tucker
Auction Closed
May 20, 09:03 PM GMT
Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula
circa 1925 - 2001
Water and Tucker, 1972
Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
29 ⅞ in x 35 ⅞ in (76 cm x 91 cm)
Painted at Papunya in 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, consigned by the above (catalogue number 17037)
Private Collection, Vancouver
The Austcorp Group Limited Art Collection, Sydney
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, November 24, 2009, lot 78, consigned by the above
Private Collection, Netherlands
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, Melbourne, 2004, p. 429, fig. 394
Barbara Flynn (ed.), Selections from the Austcorp Group Limited Collection of Aboriginal Art, 2007, p. 19
Roger Benjamin and Andrew C. Weislogel (eds), Icons of The Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, New York, 2009, p. 21 (archival photo; pictured in an earlier state)
Judith Ryan and Philip Batty, et. al., Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, Melbourne, 2011, p. 274
The Deloitte Foundation, Sydney, Selections from the Austcorp Group Limited Collection of Aboriginal Art, October 8 - December 14, 2007
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Tjukkurtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, September 30, 2011 - February 12, 2012; continuing to:
Musée du quai Branly, Paris, October 9, 2012 - January 20, 2013
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