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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  26 Nov 2014 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  76
• Lot Description:
  Charlie Wartuma (Tarawa) Tjungurrayi
  (c1921 – 1999)
  Wild Potato Story, 1971
  synthetic polymer powder paint and synthetic binder on plywood
  88.0 x 41.0 cm
  inscribed verso: artist’s name ‘Charlie JUNGARI’ (sic), language group ‘PINTABI’ (sic), title and diagrammatic annotations, in Geoffrey Bardon’s hand, and numbered ‘10’
• Provenance:
  Executed at Papunya in September/October 1971; Mr Ron Collins (editor of Geoffrey Bardon’s first film on the Pintupi The Richer Hours completed in 1971) ; Private collection, Queensland; Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 24 July 2007, lot 41; Private collection, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 September 2011 – 12 February 2012; Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 9 October 2012 – 20 January 2013 (label attached verso)
• References:
  Bardon, G., Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert, McPhee Gribble, Penguin, Melbourne, 1991, p. 80 (illus., as ‘Yam Dreaming’) ; Bardon, G., and Bardon, J., Papunya: A Place Made After the Story – The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, painting 268, p. 326 (illus., as ‘Yam Dreaming (Version 2)’) ; Ryan, J., and Batty, P., Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, pp. 24, 303, illus. p. 216
• Estimate:
  A$55,000 - 75,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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