WIMMITJI TJAPANGARTI

Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills)
Private collection, Sydney
Sotheby's, Fine Contemporary and Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 November 1995, lot 601
Private collection, Sydney

The work is in very good condition and has been reframed in a minimalist white box frame.
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Cf. The Artist's Country, 1989, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, in Caruana, W., Aboriginal Art, World of Art Series, Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2003, illus. p.156, pl.134; and Marrangu, 1991, in the Holmes À Court Collection, Perth, in Brody, A. (ed.), Stories: Eleven Aboriginal Artists, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997, illus.p.60

This painting is sold with an accompanying certificate from Warlayirti Artists, with an annotated diagram and a description of the story depicted that reads; 'Artist's Country. The painting shows an area where the artist spent his early years and which is associated with Tingari activities in the Dreamtime.  Tjitji Kutjara or Two Children are believed to have camped here and there is an area nearby for women only which is believed to have been formed by a woman's tears. 'Maparn' or healing powers are contained in some rocks found here also.'