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Lot 79

Mick Gill Tjakamarra
(circa 1920-2002)
Lappi Lappi (Water Dreaming), 1986

24 March 2013, 14:00 AEDT
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art

Sold for AU$4,880 inc. premium

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Mick Gill Tjakamarra (circa 1920-2002)

Lappi Lappi (Water Dreaming), 1986
bears various inscriptions and artist's name 'Mick Tjakamarra Gille (sic)' and title on Frederix canvas panel stamp on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on canvas board
60 x 50cm (23 5/8 x 19 11/16in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), Western Australia
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, 30 June 1997, lot 209
The Laverty Collection, Sydney

LITERATURE:
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.111 (illus.)

This painting is sold with accompanying Warlayirti Artists documentation.

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