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Lot 23

Darby Jampijinpa Ross
(circa 1905-2005)
Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming), 1989

25 November 2020, 18:00 AEDT
Melbourne, Armadale

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Darby Jampijinpa Ross (circa 1905-2005)

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming), 1989
inscribed verso: 'Darby Ross Jampijinpa / Ngapa Jukurrpa 10/89 / Warlukurlangu Artists'
synthetic polymer paint on linen
121.0 x 76.5cm (47 5/8 x 30 1/8in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu
The Donald Kahn Collection, United States of America
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 July 2010, lot 118
Private collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, 1991; Carolino Augusteum Museum, Salzburg, The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv; Naprstkovo Museum, Prague and The Museum of Ethnology, Warsaw during 1992-1993
Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 26 July - 16 October 1994
Australian Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert - The Donald Kahn Collection, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 3 December 1994-28 January 1995
Desert Dreaming: Australian Aboriginal Art, Albertina, Vienna, 15 June - 26 August 2007

LITERATURE
Geoffrey Bardon and Vivien Johnson, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, 1991, p. 54, cat. 23 (illus.), p.78
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1994, p. 40, cat. 23 (black and white illus.), pp. 116-117 (illus.)

This painting is accompanied by Warlukurlangu Artists documentation

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