WATI WIILUKU INMA TJUKURPA, 2007

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
228

DICKIE MINYINTIRI

born c.1915
WATI WIILUKU INMA TJUKURPA, 2007

synthetic polymer paint on linen

60.0 x 90.0 cm (pair)

inscribed verso: artist’s name, title. size and Ernabella Arts cat. DM112-07 and DM 1311-07

Estimate: 
$3,000 - 5,000 (2)
Sold for $1,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 20 - 18 May 2011, Melbourne
Provenance

Ernabella Arts, Alice Springs
Birrung Gallery, Sydney

Catalogue text

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Ernabella Arts which states: 'This painting is based on inma (ceremony) about a bird that is very special to Dickie. It’s the male bush stone curlew (wiilu) and comes from a place near Kanpi in the APY Lands. It dances and sings at night time - a nocturnal bird. It lives in the open woodlands. It has a very loud wailing call. This bird is now rare, as is the inma that is danced by few men, Dickie being one of them. This painting follows the wiiluas it travels between waterholes.'