- 238
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 AUD
bidding is closed
Description
- Various Artists
- TJINTIRTJINTIRLORRAINE DAVIESCIRCA 1955JUDITH DONALDSON1936-2008ANNE HOGANBORN 1945ANNETTE HOGANBORN 1957ESTELLE HOGANBORN 1937MYRTLE PENNINGTONBORN 1939CARLENE WESTBORN 1945TJADUWA WOODSBORN 1958
- Bears artist's names, 'www.spinifex.org' and
catalogue number C699 on the reverse - Synthetic polymer paint on linen
- 230 by 175 cm
Provenance
Painted in 2008 for the Spinifex Arts Project at Ilkurlka/Tjuntjuntjara
Condition
The work is housed in a timber shadow box frame and appears in good and stable condition. There are minor smudges and marks which appear to have occurred during painting of the canavs.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
The Spinifex Foundation, Tjuntjuntjara WA seeks support for the publication of a Spinifex Arts Project Catalogue Raisonne. This Catalogue Raisonne will present chronologically, every work painted in the Spinifex Homelands to date.
Since the commencement of painting and the establishment of the Spinifex Arts Project in 1996 over 700 works have been painted. Each of these paintings reveals a unique aspect of Spinifex relationships to country and traditional ownership and contributes to the original charter of the Spinifex Arts Project to map Spinifex country birthplaces and thus reveal the social and spatial relationships contained in their traditional homelands. The publication of this catalogue raisonne of the Spinifex Arts Project will make available to the public for the first time an encompassing visual ethnography of the Spinifex people. This year senior groups of Spinifex men and women have each painted an important work of epic scale and content specifically for the purpose of raising funds for the publication ofthe catalogue raisonne.
Sotheby's Australia support the Spinifex Foundation in this endeavor and offer these two works for sale in this current auction. Proceeds from the sale of the Men's Combined and Women's combined works will be released to the Spinifex Foundation. The anticipated publication of the Spinifex Arts project Catalogue Raisonne in 2009/2010 will commemorate ten years since the Spinifex people negotiated the first Native Title land agreement with the West Australian Government and later ratified by the Federal Court in November 2000.
This important Spinifex Tjukurpa (Anangu creation story) tells the story of a place at Tjintirkara in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia, close to the South Australian border. The story has been painted by a group of senior traditional owners from Spinifex country responsible for this area and Tjukurpa and who travelled to the site in April 2008 specifically to paint this story. On this occasion the women were accompanied by a number of younger women, all family who had listened to the story for most of their lives but had never actually visited the site.
Tjintirtjintir is the Pitjantjatjara word for Willy Wagtail, a small but feisty bird that lives in the desert and is also the name of the woman in this Tjukurpa. Minyma Tjintirtjintir (Willy Wagtail Woman) is travelling alone in this area and is sleeping at Tjintilkara. She dreams of lightning and is indeed awoken in the night by a looming black cloud. A lightning and thunderstorm occur over her and panicking she makes an emergency dash towards Piltitjara an area close by. Minyma Tjintirtjintir is struck down by the hail stones and it is at this place that she dies. The multitude of holes immediately surrounding this rockhole represent the hailstones that killed the Willy Wagtail Woman. Piltitjara is a sacred place and this story is always spoken of in hushed tones.
Sotheby's wishes to thank Neil Murphy for this catalogue entry
Since the commencement of painting and the establishment of the Spinifex Arts Project in 1996 over 700 works have been painted. Each of these paintings reveals a unique aspect of Spinifex relationships to country and traditional ownership and contributes to the original charter of the Spinifex Arts Project to map Spinifex country birthplaces and thus reveal the social and spatial relationships contained in their traditional homelands. The publication of this catalogue raisonne of the Spinifex Arts Project will make available to the public for the first time an encompassing visual ethnography of the Spinifex people. This year senior groups of Spinifex men and women have each painted an important work of epic scale and content specifically for the purpose of raising funds for the publication ofthe catalogue raisonne.
Sotheby's Australia support the Spinifex Foundation in this endeavor and offer these two works for sale in this current auction. Proceeds from the sale of the Men's Combined and Women's combined works will be released to the Spinifex Foundation. The anticipated publication of the Spinifex Arts project Catalogue Raisonne in 2009/2010 will commemorate ten years since the Spinifex people negotiated the first Native Title land agreement with the West Australian Government and later ratified by the Federal Court in November 2000.
This important Spinifex Tjukurpa (Anangu creation story) tells the story of a place at Tjintirkara in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia, close to the South Australian border. The story has been painted by a group of senior traditional owners from Spinifex country responsible for this area and Tjukurpa and who travelled to the site in April 2008 specifically to paint this story. On this occasion the women were accompanied by a number of younger women, all family who had listened to the story for most of their lives but had never actually visited the site.
Tjintirtjintir is the Pitjantjatjara word for Willy Wagtail, a small but feisty bird that lives in the desert and is also the name of the woman in this Tjukurpa. Minyma Tjintirtjintir (Willy Wagtail Woman) is travelling alone in this area and is sleeping at Tjintilkara. She dreams of lightning and is indeed awoken in the night by a looming black cloud. A lightning and thunderstorm occur over her and panicking she makes an emergency dash towards Piltitjara an area close by. Minyma Tjintirtjintir is struck down by the hail stones and it is at this place that she dies. The multitude of holes immediately surrounding this rockhole represent the hailstones that killed the Willy Wagtail Woman. Piltitjara is a sacred place and this story is always spoken of in hushed tones.
Sotheby's wishes to thank Neil Murphy for this catalogue entry