Lot 208 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA 1920-1989 EMU STORY 1971 61 by 45.5 cm Synthetic polymer paint on composition board Provenance: Painted at Papunya in 1971 for Geoffrey Bardon The collection of Dr. Geoffrey Cornish OAM Contemporary Art, Sotheby's,
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KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA 1920-1989 EMU STORY 1971 61 by 45.5 cm Synthetic polymer paint on composition board Provenance: Painted at Papunya in 1971 for Geoffrey Bardon The collection of Dr. Geoffrey Cornish OAM Contemporary Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 2 October 1994, lot 86 Private collection, Sydney Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26-27 June 2000, lot 227 Private collection, Sydney Literature: Corbally Stourton, P., Songlines and Dreamings, Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Painting: The First Quarter- century of Papunya Tula, Lund and Humphries, London, 1996, p.88, pl. 85 Corbally Stourton, P., Songlines and Dreamings II, 2000, pp.14-15, illus. p.15 Dr Geoffrey Cornish, OAM, purchased this painting after hearing Geoffrey Bardon address a Rotary meeting in Alice Springs in 1971. This painting was originally sold with a drawing of the painting and annotations that read: 'An Emu Dreaming from Western Australia tracks past the caves. Centre - drawings on caves and body decorations of men in the caves from a long time ago'.
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