Lot 29
Kuntjil Cooper(born circa 1920-2010)Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Sisters), 2006
24 March 2013, 14:00 AEDT
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary ArtAU$5,000 - AU$7,000
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Kuntjil Cooper (born circa 1920-2010)
Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Sisters), 2006
bears artists name, date and Irrunytju Arts catalogue number IKK06189
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
104 x 140cm (40 15/16 x 55 1/8in).
bears artists name, date and Irrunytju Arts catalogue number IKK06189
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
104 x 140cm (40 15/16 x 55 1/8in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE:
Irrunytju Arts, Wingellina, Western Australia
Purchased from Raft Artspace, Darwin in September 2006
The Laverty Collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED:
Irrunytju Arts - Senior artists from Irrunytju WA, Raft Artspace, Darwin, 12 August - 9 September 2006, cat. no. 8
Country in mind: Five contemporary Aboriginal artists, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 11 November 2006 - 4 February 2007
Breaking with tradition: Cobra and Aboriginal art, Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art (AAMU), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 12 November 2010 - 8 May 2011
LITERATURE:
Joanna Bosse et al., Country in mind: Five contemporary Aboriginal artists, exh. cat., Melbourne: The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2006, cat. no. 6, p.10 (illus.)
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2008, p.105 (illus.)
Paola van de Velde, Georges Petitjean and Ronald A.R. Kerkhoven, Los van traditie: Cobra en Aboriginal kunst (Breaking with tradition: CoBrA and Aboriginal art), exh. cat., Gent, Belgium: Snoeck, 2010, p.77 (illus.)
This painting is sold with accompanying Irrunytju Arts documentation.