Lot 20
Boxer Milner Tjampitjin(born circa 1935)Purkitji (Diptych), 2002 each panel is 150 x 75cm (59 1/16 x 29 1/2in).
24 March 2013, 14:00 AEDT
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary ArtSold for AU$21,960 inc. premium
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Boxer Milner Tjampitjin (born circa 1935)
Purkitji (Diptych), 2002
each bears artist's name and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 1201/02 on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on linen
each panel is 150 x 75cm (59 1/16 x 29 1/2in).
each bears artist's name and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 1201/02 on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on linen
each panel is 150 x 75cm (59 1/16 x 29 1/2in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE:
Painted at Billiluna, Western Australia
Purchased from Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu
(Balgo Hills), Western Australia in December 2003
EXHIBITED:
20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, 16 August - 7 December 2003, cat. no. 15
Paintings from Remote Communities: Indigenous Australian
Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, Govett Brewster
Art Gallery, New Zealand, 15 December 2007 -
24 February 2008; Newcastle Region Art Gallery,
Newcastle, 5 July - 31 August 2008
The diptych Purkitji is a conceptual map of the
waterholes along the course of Sturt Creek where each
concentric square represents a named site.
Wally Caruana
This painting is sold with accompanying Warlayirti
Artists documentation.