![Richard Moketarinja (circa 1918-1983) Untitled (Designs Associated with the Catepillar Dreaming [Ayeparenye Atyerre] from Mt Zeil [Urlatherrke])](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2011-11/21/8440036-1-3.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "Richard Moketarinja (circa 1918-1983) Untitled (Designs Associated with the Catepillar Dreaming [Ayeparenye Atyerre] from Mt Zeil [Urlatherrke]) Sold for AU$ 6,000 inc. premium")
Richard Moketarinja (circa 1918-1983)
Untitled (Designs Associated with the Catepillar Dreaming [Ayeparenye Atyerre] from Mt Zeil [Urlatherrke])
both bear artist's name, title, medium, dimensions and notes on the artist on a label on the reverse of the mount
watercolour and pencil on artists board
24.5 x 24.5; 25 x 24cm (all approximately 10 x 10in)
both bear artist's name, title, medium, dimensions and notes on the artist on a label on the reverse of the mount
watercolour and pencil on artists board
24.5 x 24.5; 25 x 24cm (all approximately 10 x 10in)
Sold for
AU$ 6,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- PROVENANCE:
Likely to have been painted in the late 1960s or early 1970s
Private collection
According to respected Alice Springs historian Richard Kimber, Moketarinja was the only artist of the Aranda watercolour school at Hermannsberg who on occasion turned his hand to representing traditional ceremonial designs rather than landscape (personal correspondence).
In these rare examples he paints designs associated with his Caterpillar Dreaming. It is possible that these paintings may pre-date the works produced by the 'painting men' at Papunya in 1971.
Category: Fine Art / Aboriginal Art
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