Untitled, 1978

synthetic polymer paint on canvas board

61 x 50.5 cm; 81 x 71 cm (framed)

Est. $750 – $900

Hammer $4,600

Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No. DN781154 Private Collection, NSW Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd
Artwork story: An old ancestral man came from the north carrying two sacred boards — one very large, balanced on his head as he travelled; the other thinner, carried under his arm. He had painted himself with ochres before setting off. The Papunya Tula Artists documentation for this work records his journey to Yantjuka, a soakage site approximately sixty kilometres northwest of Papunya, where he rested in the shade and camped for the night before continuing south to Yuulunturrngu, the great mountain west of Papunya known to Europeans as Mount Liebig. The sinuous lines that move through the composition are the old man's path. The concentric circle at the upper centre marks the shade at Yantjuka where he stopped. A U-shaped form denotes the man seated at his campsite, and the patterned dot fields represent the sacred boards — one carried on his head, one beneath his arm. Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa settled in Papunya and began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in the mid-1970s. He is the younger brother of Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and a cousin of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri and Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri. In 1977 he travelled to Melbourne for a Papunya Tula exhibition at the Realities Gallery, and in 1981 visited Sydney with Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi to construct the first ground painting seen outside Central Australia, in the grounds of the S.H. Ervin Gallery on Observatory Hill.

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Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa

b. c.1935

Region: Western Desert
Community: Yuendumu
Language group: Warlpiri; Anmatyerr (Anmatyerre)

Untitled, 1978

synthetic polymer paint on canvas board

61 x 50.5 cm; 81 x 71 cm (framed)

Est. $750 – $900

Hammer $4,600

Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No. DN781154 Private Collection, NSW Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd
Artwork story: An old ancestral man came from the north carrying two sacred boards — one very large, balanced on his head as he travelled; the other thinner, carried under his arm. He had painted himself with ochres before setting off. The Papunya Tula Artists documentation for this work records his journey to Yantjuka, a soakage site approximately sixty kilometres northwest of Papunya, where he rested in the shade and camped for the night before continuing south to Yuulunturrngu, the great mountain west of Papunya known to Europeans as Mount Liebig. The sinuous lines that move through the composition are the old man's path. The concentric circle at the upper centre marks the shade at Yantjuka where he stopped. A U-shaped form denotes the man seated at his campsite, and the patterned dot fields represent the sacred boards — one carried on his head, one beneath his arm. Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa settled in Papunya and began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in the mid-1970s. He is the younger brother of Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and a cousin of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri and Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri. In 1977 he travelled to Melbourne for a Papunya Tula exhibition at the Realities Gallery, and in 1981 visited Sydney with Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi to construct the first ground painting seen outside Central Australia, in the grounds of the S.H. Ervin Gallery on Observatory Hill.