DINGO PUPPIES (NYUNMANU), 1972

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
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MICK NAMARARI TJAPALTJARRI

(c.1926 - 1998)
DINGO PUPPIES (NYUNMANU), 1972

synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board

55.0 x 52.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist’s initials MN and Papunya Tula Artists cat. 19307

Estimate: 
$30,000 - 40,000
Sold for $33,600 (inc. BP) in Auction 20 - 18 May 2011, Melbourne
Provenance

Executed at Papunya, Northern Territory
Graeme Marshall Collection,
Papunya, acquired 1972
Private collection, South Australia,
acquired from the above in 1979

Exhibited

Twenty-five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, The Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, September - December 1999

Literature

Mellor, D., and Megaw, V., Twenty-five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, 1999 (illus.)
 

Catalogue text

Mick Namarari has painted many different versions of his Dingo Dreaming. The principle Dingo Dreaming site is at Nyunmanu, to the South East of Kintore. The home of the Dingo Ancestors is on top of the hill at that site. This hill is represented by a series of concentric circles. The 'Dingo Puppies' have moved out in all directions from Nyunmanu. The puppies and the directions travelled are shown in this painting.