WOMEN’S DREAMING AT THE WATER SITE OF PUNKILPIRRI, 1998

Modern + Contemporary Art
Melbourne
13 June 2018
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INYUWA NAMPITJINPA

(c.1922 – 1999)
WOMEN’S DREAMING AT THE WATER SITE OF PUNKILPIRRI, 1998

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

122.0 x 122.0 cm

bears inscription verso, artist’s name and Papunya Tula Artists cat. IN980531

Estimate: 
$7,000 – 9,000
Sold for $6,100 (inc. BP) in Auction 54 - 13 June 2018, Melbourne
Provenance

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne
Private collection, Brisbane, acquired from the above in September 2007

Exhibited

Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy, 29 June – 26 August 2001; Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 23 February – 23 June 2002; Palazzo Vaj, Monash University at Prato, Prato, Italy, 2 – 30 July 2003; The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem, Israel, 21 October – 19 December 2003; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 2 October 2004 – 30 January 2005, cat. 27 (label attached verso)

Literature

Bardon, G., (et al.), Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 2004, p. 28 (illus.)

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs.