Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Painted in 1972
  Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs
  Private collection
  Centre for Aboriginal Craftsman, Alice Springs
  Private collection (acquired from the above in 1979)
  Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1998, lot 44 (as Artist Unknown)
  Private collection
  
  LITERATURE:
  Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2004, ptg.135, p.224
  
  In his final publication on the Western Desert Art Movement, Papunya - A Place Made After the Story, Geoffrey Bardon positively identifies this simple yet elegant early painting as being by Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, and gives it the title of Dancing Ceremonial Men. He remarks with regard to the iconography, "The ritual men form a unit with a travelling line apparently followed by other ritual men, with a varied 'U' configuration possibly as a dancing motif. This simple formulation of repeated yet varied 'U' motifs partly separated with the top grouping and linked by a strong straight line should be compared with another earlier Honey Ant Traveling Dreaming (ibid. Ptg.111 p.207), painted in 1971 by Kaapa Tjampitjinpa .

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Category: Fine Art / Aboriginal Art

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