Lot 251: c - TIM LEURA TJAPALTJARRI , MALA (ROCK WALLABY) STORY c.1973

Bears artist's name 'Tim Jabaljari' (sic.), and 'Papunya' on the reverse Synthetic polymer paint on composition board

56.5 by 30 cm

Painted at Papunya in late 1972 or early 1973
Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing

The painting features a similar composition and a number of elements recorded in Geoffrey Bardon?s annotated sketch of the painting Euro Story (Example 1), 1972, reproduced in Bardon, G. and J. Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p.198. These include the line of three concentric circles and the tracks of the euro (kangaroo). The design of meandering lines representing creeks, adjacent to which are series of alternating double bars indicating clouds, is related to the Rain or Water Dreaming. The paint has been applied to the coarse, reverse side of a sheet of masonite