Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri
(born 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:
$12,200 (inc. BP)
lot details
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.)
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.