Maxie Tjampitjinpa Australia (Aboriginal), 1947-97
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About Maxie Tjampitjinpa
Australian Aborignial artist, Maxie Tjampitjinpa was born in 1945 in the Western Desert. He began painting in the late 1970s and was described as the 'vanguard of a new wave of the Western Desert art tradition at Papunya.' Tjampitjinpa won the 1984 Northern Territory Art Award. He exhibited extensively at prestigious Australian as well as international institutions, such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Museum, Brisbane; Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Massachusetts; and Kerava Art Museum, Finland.
We have records of art auction sales by Maxie Tjampitjinpa from 1989 and in total 125 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 67 (54%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $16,730 for Bush Fire Dreaming sold by Bonhams & Goodman in March 2006. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Maxie Tjampitjinpa are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and a further four major public national galleries (see list below).
Maxie Tjampitjinpa is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 129
- Germaine, Max. Artists and Galleries of Australia, Volumes 1 & 2, Third Edition. Craftsman Press, Sydney, 1990. Page 675
- Johnson, Vivien, Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert-A Biographical Dictionary. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994. Page 141
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
- Maxie Tjampitjinpa is classified as one of the top Australian Indigenous artists by leading Aboriginal fine art gallery, Cooee Gallery, Sydney.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.
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