Lot 69: WIMMITJI TJAPANGATI CIRCA 1925-2000 | Kurra, near The Canning Stock Route

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Bears Warlayirti Artists catalogue No. 573/89 on the reverse

120cm by 85cm

Synthethic polymer paint on canvas

Overall the paint surface is in excellent clean and stable condition. The Arts Centre has repaired a small hole in the reverse of the canvas at the time of production, approximately at the position of the black 'U' shape in the lower left hand register. The work was originally sold with this imperfection.
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Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, October 1990
Kleur Bekennen/Show your Colours, AAMU, Utrecht, 23 April 2009 - 7 September 2009
Aboriginal Art Today!, AAMU, Utrecht, 21 April 2010 - November 2010

Georges Petitjean, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, The AAMU and Dutch Collections, Uitgeverij Snoeck, The Netherlands, 2010, p.52 (illus)

Painted at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), Western Australia in 1989
Coo-ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney
The Sam Barry Collection, Brisbane
Sotheby's Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary, Melbourne, 17 June 1996, Lot 161
The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands