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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Ethnographic Art
• Sale Date:
  11 Dec 2016 ~ 11am
• Lot #:
  272
• Lot Description:
  Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
  Very Drunk Mans Feet, Coolamons and digging sticks, 1975
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas board
  61 x 45.5 cm
• Provenance:
  Purchased directly from Peter Fannin in Papunya whilst working on an Aboriginal housing project in 1975. Artist's name and title verso. Private Collection, NSW.
• Notes:
  Warangkula was amongst the most inventive of the early Papunya artists. His 'calligraphic line and smearing brushwork' (Bardon in Isaacs 2001: 71), gave a relative solidity to the features of the land, or traced the movements of a journey, picking up on the rhythmic recall of a mythic narrative. Bands of hatching or parallel lines provided visual texture, often interspersed with animal tracks or symbolic figures woven in to tightly synchronized compositions that still resound with freshness and surprising spontaneity. Choosing to keep within the hues of traditional earth based ochres, he achieved in his early paintings a startlingly powerful statement of the earth, his country and the life within it.
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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