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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Timed Online Auction | Australian Indigenous Art, featuring works from the collection of James Smeaton
• Sale Date:
  06 Jun 2023 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  33
• Lot Description:
  Ken Bell Tjampitjinpa
  Love Story, 1974
  synthetic polymer paint on composition board
  57.0 x 43.5 cm; 68.0 x 54.0 cm (frame)
• Provenance:
  Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory (cat. 742411 KB) Private collection Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 June 1999, lot 314 Collection of James Smeaton, Melbourne
• Notes:
  This work is accompanied by certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Art which states: 'This is the early stage of a story where a man found and married two sisters. We see three places where the women had camped. They are decorated with Nyalyipi rope (Crotalaria cunninghamii) which women make from the bark of a small sandhill bush. When the man came, however, the women had gone, so he failed to meet them on this occasion.'
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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