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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Aboriginal Art from the Luczo Family Collection, USA
• Sale Date:
  19 Oct 2016 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  30
• Lot Description:
  Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri
  (c.1935 – 1987)
  Woman's Dreaming, 1972
  synthetic polymer powder paint on board
  46.5 x 65.0 cm
  bears inscription verso: 14008
• Provenance:
  Painted at Papunya in 1972; Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs (label attached verso, consignment 14, painting 8); Private collection; Sotheby's, Melbourne, 30 June 1997, lot 211; Private collection, Sydney; Sotheby's, Melbourne, 31 July 2006, lot 78; The Luczo Family Collection, USA
• 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 317, p. 367 (illus.) together with illustration of the original field notes and diagram by Geoffrey Bardon
• Notes:
  Originally a carver of wooden objects, Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri joined the first group of painters at Papunya in 1971 when Geoffrey Bardon encouraged the senior men to paint in European materials – thus leading to the formation of the cooperative Papunya Tula Artists. The main subject of Tjapaltjarri’s paintings are the Tingari ancestors, particularly in the guise of two Great Snakes in his customary lands country around Patjarr in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia – one of the most remote locations in the continent. Lowry’s early paintings refer to ceremony and the associated objects – for example, his earliest recorded painting from 1971, Three Corroboree Poles, in the Wilkerson Collection depicts ceremonial poles.1 Dating from the same period, Woman's Dreaming, 1972, depicts a ceremonial scene featuring eight decorated dancing boards that are carried by women in the ritual. The central roundel represents a waterhole from which rivulets stream to other ritual camps, while several red roundels represent campfires, indicating that this was a large ceremonial gathering.2 The women are symbolised by U-shapes adjacent to their coolamon that lie in front of them. WALLY CARUANA 1. See inBenjamin, R and Weislogel, A.C. (eds.), Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, 2009, p. 80; 2. Bardon, G. and Bardon, J., Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, TheMiegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p. 367
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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