WATER STORY, 1971

Part 2: Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
27 November 2013
169

OLD WALTER TJAMPITJINPA

(1912 - 1980)
WATER STORY, 1971

synthetic polymer paint and powder paint on composition board

25.5 x 71.5 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name and Stuart Art Centre consignment number 5037

Estimate: 
$12,000 - 18,000
Provenance

Executed at Papunya in October – November 1971
Consignment 5, painting number 37 to the Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs
Private collection, Alice Springs
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 June 2004, lot 202
Private collection, Sydney

Literature

Bardon, G., and Bardon J., Papunya, A Place made after the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Paintings Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2004, p. 341, diagram (as 'Snake Dreaming, 1971')