Old Walter Tjampitjinpa was an Aboriginal Australian Indigenous Art painter who was born in 1912. Philip Bacon Galleries featured Old Walter Tjampitjinpa's work in the past.Old Walter Tjampitjinpa's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 2,729 USD to 51,588 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2009 the record price for this artist at auction is 51,588 USD for Untitled, 1972, sold at Bonhams Australia, Sydney in 2022.
Old Walter Tjampitjinpa in the news
In 黑料不打烊鈥檚 artist press archive, Old Walter Tjampitjinpa is featured in , a piece from Hyperallergic in September 2016. The artist died in 1980.
In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia鈥檚 Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics.