MARRAPINTI, 1999

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
14 October 2009
73

George Tjungurrayi

born c.1943
MARRAPINTI, 1999

synthetic polymer paint on linen

122.0 x 91.5 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd cat. GT9906185

Estimate: 
$6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 11 - 14 October 2009, Melbourne
Provenance

Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs
Private collection, Melbourne
 

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists which reads in part: 'This painting depicts designs associated with the travels of a group of Tingari Women from the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, west of the Kiwirrkura Community. The women, of the Nakamarra, Nampitjinpa and Napangati kinship subsections, had been performing the dances associated with the area. They travelled east stopping at Ngaminya and the rockhole site of Wirrulnga, east of the Kiwirrkura Community, before continuing their travels... to Umari, east of Mt. Webb'.