WATER DREAMING WITH RAINBOWS AND RAIN, 1972

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
139

BILLY STOCKMAN TJAPALTJARRI

born c.1927
WATER DREAMING WITH RAINBOWS AND RAIN, 1972

synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board

86.5 x 53.0 cm

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $12,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, Victoria, acquired directly from the artist at Papunya in 1973
Lawson~Menzies, Sydney, 23 May 2007, lot 90
Private collection, Melbourne

Literature

Bardon, G., and Bardon, J., Papunya: A Place Made After the Story-The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p. 193 (illus.)

Catalogue text

According to Geoffrey Bardon's diagram reproduced in Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, a Water Dreaming story is represented by running water, waterholes, rainbows and rain; the dotting represents the rain and the earth, and spears and boomerangs are also indicated.