ExSothebys Kaapa Tjampitjinpa1974 Investment Aboriginal

Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa circa 1920-1989 Native Orange Dreaming 1974 Synthetic polymer paint on white cotton canvas. 125 X 80 cm.

Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist in 1974 by the resident Police Officer in charge of the Papunya Community.

 Ex Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art Melbourne June 30 1997 lot 69

Ex Joel Fine Art Melbourne 2006

Ex Mossgreen Fine Early Aboriginal and Oceanic Art Sydney August 2008 lot 240. Literature quote " Because of his great mastery of the paintbrush, Kappa was chosen by the other men of Papunya to paint a mural of Honey Ant Dreaming on the Papunya School wall in 1971. This was the beginning of the Western Desert Painting Movement when led by Kaapa the Aboriginal men saw themselves in their own image and before their very own eyes and upon a Europena building. Truly something strange and wonderful had begun. Quoted from Papunya A Place Made After the Story, Bardon Geoff and James, Melbourne 2004 p.17

A very fine representativ early canvas with the depiction of sacred objects. The Water Dreaming iconography is depicted which illustrates the concept of floral abundance after rain, one of the key repetative notions in aboriginal art.

Box framed in black timber.