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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Indigenous Art
• Sale Date:
  25 May 2016 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  139
• Lot Description:
  Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri
  born c.1927
  Water Dreaming With Rainbows And Rain, 1972
  natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas
  86.5 x 53.0 cm
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Victoria, acquired directly from the artist at Papunya in 1973; Lawson~Menzies, Sydney, 23 May 2007, lot 90; Private collection, Melbourne
• 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, p. 193 (illus.)
• Notes:
  According to Geoffrey Bardon's diagram reproduced in Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, a Water Dreaming story is represented by running water, waterholes, rainbows and rain; the dotting represents the rain and the earth, and spears and boomerangs are also indicated.
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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