OLD WOMAN'S STORY, 2001

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
33

PIRRMANGKA NAPANANGKA

(1945 - 2001)
OLD WOMAN'S STORY, 2001

synthetic polymer paint on linen

152.5 x 183.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist’s name, size and Papunya Tula Artists cat. PN0103052

Estimate: 
$20,000 - 30,000
Provenance

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 24 June 2002, lot 46
Private collection, New South Wales

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists which states: 'This painting depictsdesigns associated with the travels of an old woman, Kutungka Napanangka, from the west. She visited the rockhole site of Tjintjintjin which is west of Mantati Outstation, approximately seventy kilometers west of the Kintore Community. The large elongated shape is this rockhole, the circles are rocks at the site and the lines at the edges are sandhills. She then travelled further east to Muruntji, south-west of Mt. Liebig.’