SHORTY LUNGKATA TJUNGURRAYI

Painted at Warra Wea (Waru Wiya) in 1977
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Corporate collection

The painting is housed in a light coloured timber shadow box frame. The painted surface area appears to be in good and stable condition with no visible paint loss, scuffs or scratches.
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Cf. Perkins, H. and H. Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, pp.88-89 for a related work painted in the same year and Brody, A., The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings 1971-84, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1985, p.18, cat. no.8 for an earlier work with very closely related designs; for a similar work from 1975 see Walukarritji in the collection of the Flinders University Art Museum in Mellor, D. and V. Megaw (eds.), Twenty-Five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Press, Adelaide, 1999, p.33, pl.28, illus.

This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate