Hand signed, large Limited Edition Printers Proof On Paper.
Title: Kulpitjarra
Edition: PP (rare Printers Proof)
Image: 67 x 84 cm
Dimensions Framed: 80 x 100 cm
Framed under glass in timber frame as pictured.
Signed 'X'(Tommy Watson), titled and numbered in pencil below image
Tommy Watson (c1935 - 2018)
Yannima Tommy Watson known as Tommy Watson (born 1930s) was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia’s Central Western Desert. He was described by one critic as "the greatest living painter of the Western Desert".
Tommy Watson began painting in 2001, and was one of a handful of painters establishing the Irrunytju community art centre in 2001.
Watson's work has received critical acclaim, both within Australia and internationally, with art critics drawing parallels between Watson and Western Abstract painters such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kasimir Malevich, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. John MacDonald wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that Watson "is a master of invention and arguably the outstanding painter of the Western Desert", going on to compare his use of colour to Henri Matisse.