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Lot 107
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GEORGE TJUNGURRAYI

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 AUD
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Description

  • George Tjungurrayi
  • UNTITLED
  • Bears artists name, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number GT970408 on the reverse

  • Synthetic polymer paint on linen

  • 183.5 by 153

Provenance

Painted at Kintore in 1997
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Private collection

Exhibited

Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, George Tjungurrayi: Recent Paintings, 1998, cat. no.15

Condition

The painting is in good and stable condition with no signs of restoration or repair with minor scuffs and scratches to the outer edges and corners of the canvas
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Catalogue Note

Cf. Tingari Dreaming, 1996, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, in Perkins, H, and Fink, H., Papunya Tula, Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p.121, for a closely related large scale painting using the same palette.

George Tjungurrayi developed the extraordinary, graphically minimal renditions of country associated with the Tingari ancestors around 1996, and this work comes from the first Melbourne exhibition in which he showed this style of painting. The field of narrow parallel lines, which 'warp' towards the opposite edges of the canvas, relates to the designs engraved on shields in the Western Desert, as well as to a conceptualisation of the physical appearance of the country around Lake Mackay with its parallel ridges of sand dunes.

This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate