Property from a Distinguished Australian Corporate Collection
Patju Presley
Wati Ngintaka
Auction Closed
May 20, 09:03 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Patju Presley
born 1945
Wati Ngintaka, 2018
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
54 in x 78 ¾ in (137 cm x 200 cm)
Spinifex Art Projects, Tjuntjuntjara, (catalogue number SAPPP 18-176)
Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
D’Lan Davidson, Melbourne
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne (in association with Spinifex Arts Projects) PATJU, November 28 - December 15, 2018
Born in Spinifex country in the Great Victoria Desert, Patju Presley’s life began in the traditional manner until the 1950s when atomic bomb testing at Maralinga, close to his traditional country, forced his family to seek shelter at Warburton mission. From there they trekked 500 miles east to the mission at Ernabella, where, decades later he commenced his career as an artist later in life. Presley is a painter of colour, the rich colours that infuse his ancestral landscape, home of the ancestral monitor lizard, Wati Nginatka. For a painting by the artist about the same ancestral being, see Wati Ngintaka, 2019, in Carty, J. and L. Scholes (eds), Sun & Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People, Upswell Publishing, Perth, 2023, p. 157.
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