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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection
• Sale Date:
  08 Mar 2015 ~ 2.30pm
• Lot #:
  92
• Lot Description:
  Uta Uta Tjangala
  (1920 – 1990)
  Special Pintupi Travelling Ceremony, 1972
  synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board
  61.0 x 45.5 cm
  inscribed verso: date
• Provenance:
  Painting number 6 in consignment 18 to the Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs; Private collection, Melbourne; Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 29 June 1998, lot 129 (incorrectly attrib. to Charlie Wartuma (Tarawa) Tjungurrayi) ; The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney
• 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., and Bardon, J., Papunya: A Place Made After the Story – The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, painting 140, p. 228 (illus. as ‘Travelling Dreamings’ by Uta Uta Tjangala) ; Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia’s Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, p. 49 (illus.); Ryan, J., and Batty, P., Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Ga
• Notes:
  Under the provisions of the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986, buyers may be required to obtain an export permit for certain categories of items in this sale. Information is available at http://arts.gov.au/movable or by contacting the: Cultural Property Section: Email: movable.heritage@arts.gov.au. Attention is drawn to clauses pertaining to export in Section 3 of the D+H prospective buyers and sellers guide: www.deutscherandhackett.com/content/buying-and-selling
• Estimate:
  A$35,000 - 55,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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