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Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula

Water and Tucker

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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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