Ken Bell Tjampitjinpa (1940 - 1977)

LOVE STORY, 1974

synthetic polymer paint on composition board

57.0 x 43.5 cm
68.0 x 54.0 cm (frame)

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory (cat. 742411 KB)
Private collection
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 June 1999, lot 314
Collection of James Smeaton, Melbourne

This work is accompanied by certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Art which states:

'This is the early stage of a story where a man found and married two sisters. We see three places where the women had camped. They are decorated with Nyalyipi rope (Crotalaria cunninghamii) which women make from the bark of a small sandhill bush. When the man came, however, the women had gone, so he failed to meet them on this occasion.'