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Long Jack
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Description
Long Jack
Phillipus Tjakamarra
born circa 1932
Medicine Story 1971
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
56 by 46cm
Provenance:
Consignment 2, painting no. 4 to the Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs
Purchased in Alice Springs in
December 1971
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1998, lot 244
Private collection, Sydney
This painting is to be sold with an accompanying annotated diagram of the story depicted. Geoffrey Bardon's annotations on the reverse of the work identify the artist and the title and interpret the central motif as that of a penis and the connecting roundels as being 'balls' or testicles (going walkabout). The wavering red lines encircling the canvas are said to represent blood or sperm from the penis.
The first medicine paintings 'were recorded in Pat Hogan's notes regarding the paintings executed for consignment 2. This painting undoubtedly relates to the Old Man Dreaming often depicted by Uta Uta Tjangala and Charlie Tarawa. Fred Myers, the American anthropologist who worked closely with the Pintupi, has written with regard to this myth see lot 131.
For a related work by Uta Uta Tjangala, see Sotheby's auction of Important Aboriginal Art, 30 June 1997, lot 17
AU$ 18,000-25,000
Phillipus Tjakamarra
born circa 1932
Medicine Story 1971
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
56 by 46cm
Provenance:
Consignment 2, painting no. 4 to the Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs
Purchased in Alice Springs in
December 1971
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1998, lot 244
Private collection, Sydney
This painting is to be sold with an accompanying annotated diagram of the story depicted. Geoffrey Bardon's annotations on the reverse of the work identify the artist and the title and interpret the central motif as that of a penis and the connecting roundels as being 'balls' or testicles (going walkabout). The wavering red lines encircling the canvas are said to represent blood or sperm from the penis.
The first medicine paintings 'were recorded in Pat Hogan's notes regarding the paintings executed for consignment 2. This painting undoubtedly relates to the Old Man Dreaming often depicted by Uta Uta Tjangala and Charlie Tarawa. Fred Myers, the American anthropologist who worked closely with the Pintupi, has written with regard to this myth see lot 131.
For a related work by Uta Uta Tjangala, see Sotheby's auction of Important Aboriginal Art, 30 June 1997, lot 17
AU$ 18,000-25,000