Tingari at Kaakuratintja, 2003

synthetic polymer paint on linen

182 x 152 cm

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Provenance: Mason Gallery, Darwin, NT, Cat No. WT0304 Private Collection Vic Accompanied by an original certificate of authenticity
Artwork story: Willy Tjungurrayi and his elder brother Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi were among the first group of painters at Papunya in the early 1970s. According to Pintupi mythology, the Tingari ancestral beings moved around the land creating its features, including the life sustaining fresh waterholes, and established Pintupi law during the earth's creation. This painting depicts designs associated with Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald). A large group of Tingari Men, both young and old, travelled to this site from the west. A fierce hailstorm occurred which killed them all. Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature no further detail was given.

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c.1930 – 2018

synthetic polymer paint on linen

182 x 152 cm

Price on application — enquire

Provenance: Mason Gallery, Darwin, NT, Cat No. WT0304 Private Collection Vic Accompanied by an original certificate of authenticity
Artwork story: Willy Tjungurrayi and his elder brother Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi were among the first group of painters at Papunya in the early 1970s. According to Pintupi mythology, the Tingari ancestral beings moved around the land creating its features, including the life sustaining fresh waterholes, and established Pintupi law during the earth's creation. This painting depicts designs associated with Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald). A large group of Tingari Men, both young and old, travelled to this site from the west. A fierce hailstorm occurred which killed them all. Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature no further detail was given.