Donkeyman Lee Tjupurrula
(1922 - 1993)
WATI KUTJARI AT WILKINPA, 1991
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
180.0 x 120.0 cm
bears inscription verso: artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists cat. 231/91
Estimate:
$12,000 - $15,000
lot details
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Hunter collection, Sydney (label attached verso)
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, lot 126
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 14 October 2009, lot 15
Private collection, New South Wales
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.)