UNTITLED, 1998

Beyond Sacred: Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection
Sydney
8 March 2015
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KUTUWULUMI PURAWARRUMPATU (KITTY KANTILLA)

(c.1928 - 2003)
UNTITLED, 1998

natural earth pigments with synthetic binder on canvas

114.0 x 82.0 cm

Estimate: 
$18,000 - 25,000
Sold for $66,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 38 - 8 March 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Jilamara Arts and Crafts, Melville Island
Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, purchased in October 1998

Exhibited

Mapping our Countries, Djamu Gallery, the Australian Museum at Customs House, Circular Quay, 8 October 1999 – 27 March 2000
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, United States of America, 30 June – 24 September, 2006; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, 7 October – 10 December 2006, cat. 64 (illus. p. 114 and detail p. 100 in exhibition catalogue), listed p. 155)
Kitty Kantilla, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 27 April – 19 August 2007; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 7 December 2007 – 21 January 2008, cat. 61 (illus. p. 55 in exhibition catalogue) (label attached verso)

Literature

Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, p. 257 (illus.)
Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, edition II, Kleimeyer Industries Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2011, p. 287 (illus.)