KANPIKU TJUKURPA, 2008

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
226

JIMMY BAKER

(c.1915 - 2010)
KANPIKU TJUKURPA, 2008

synthetic polymer paint on linen

90.0 x 60.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist’s name, size and Maruku Arts cat. EX373

Estimate: 
$4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $2,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 20 - 18 May 2011, Melbourne
Provenance

Maruku Arts, Alice Springs
Birrung Gallery, Sydney

Catalogue text

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Maruku Arts which states in part: 'The Tjukurpa related to Kanpi is to do with the Kalaya or Emy People. Jimmy paints their camp sites, waterholes and traveling tracks. He can describe the Kalaya collecting food such as bush tomato called itunypa but he doesn’t elaborate on their Creation Law.'