MACDONNELL RANGES, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, 1950

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
26 August 2015
91

ALBERT NAMATJIRA

(1902 - 1959)
MACDONNELL RANGES, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, 1950

watercolour on paper

24.0 x 36.0 cm

signed lower right: ALBERT NAMATJIRA

Estimate: 
$15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $25,620 (inc. BP) in Auction 40 - 26 August 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Painted in 1950 and acquired by Father Tierney (Catholic Church), Alice Springs
Private collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above in 1983
Thence by descent
Private collection, New South Wales

Literature

Batty, J.D., Namatjira: Wanderer Between Two Worlds, Hodder and Stoughton, Melbourne, 1963, (illus. in documentary image, pl. 15)