BAI BAI NAPANGARTI

Painted at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills) for Warlayirti Artists in 1990
The Sam Barry Collection

Cowan, J., Wirrimanu: Aboriginal Art from the Balgo Hills, Gordon and Breach, Sydney, 1994, p.79, pl.16

In very good condition overall, with no apparent repairs or restoration. Housed in a fine, white, wooden box frame.
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This painting is sold with an accompanying certificate from Warlayirti Artists that reads in part: 'Artist's Grandfather's Country. The painting concerns Tingari activities in the Dreamtime and involves Karnka, the Crow. He was travelling around and around a dead kangaroo here. He ate a lot of meat and then had to go to the toilet a lot. His faeces are today seen in some unusual rock formations found in the area. The artist grew up in this area.'