PATRICK TJUNGURRAYI

Painted at Kiwirrkura in 2004
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Private collection

This painting is house in a dark timber frame and the back of the canvas is obscured by the frame, so that the Papunya Tula Artists catalogue numbers cannot be seen. Papunya Tula has confirmed that this work is by Patrick Tjungurrayi. The painting is in good and stable condition with no visible repairs or resoration.
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The setting is the lake at Ngarru, west of Puntujtalpa (Jupiter Well) in the Gibson Desert, where a large group of ancestral Tingari Men camped on their journey east to Tarkul and on to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). The designs in the painting relate to those used in rituals associated with the Tingari where the law is revealed to initiates. The details of the Tingari's teachings are restricted however the painting evokes the spiritual nature of the landscape, endowed by the life-sustaining powers of the ancestors.

This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate