WATI KUTJARI AT WILKINPA, 1991

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
14 October 2009
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Donkeyman Lee Tjupurrula

(1922 - 1993)
WATI KUTJARI AT WILKINPA, 1991

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

180.0 x 120.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists cat. 231/91

Estimate: 
$15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $16,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 11 - 14 October 2009, Melbourne
Provenance

Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Hunter Collection, Sydney
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, lot 126
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert; Paintings by Australian Artists from Papunya, Balgo Hills and Utopia, Union of Soviet Artists Gallery, Moscow, May – June 1991, and Museum of Ethnographic Art, St Petersburg, November 1991 – January 1992

Literature

Pizzi, G., Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert; Paintings by Australian Artists from Papunya, Balgo Hills and Utopia, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 1991, p. 61 (illus.)