CORROBOREE STORY, 1973

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
10

KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA

(1925 - 1989)
CORROBOREE STORY, 1973

synthetic polymer powder paint with synthetic binder on composition board

31.0 x 47.0 cm

Estimate: 
$18,000 - 25,000
Sold for $18,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 20 - 18 May 2011, Melbourne
Provenance

Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 15 - 16 November 2005, lot 69
Elder Fine Art, Adelaide, 6 August 2006, lot 127
Private collection, Adelaide

Literature

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. 477 (illus.) together with an annotated diagram of the story depicted.