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  • TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA & LISA UHL, KURTAL & KURRKAPI, 2017-2018
    Nov. 12, 2024

    TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA & LISA UHL, KURTAL & KURRKAPI, 2017-2018

    Est: $4,000 - $6,000

    TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA & LISA UHL 1935 - 2022 & 1976 - 2018 KURTAL & KURRKAPI, 2017-2018 acrylic on perspex 60 x 60 cm (each) artwork cataloguing details verso PROVENANCE Mangkaja Arts, WA Cat No. 316b/17 & 260/18 Private collection, NSW Accompanied by certificates of authenticity from Mangkaja Arts ©Tommy May Ngarralja & Lisa Uhl / Copyright Agency, 2024 “The works on Perspex came about by chance, when in 2016 some Perspex sheets were left in the Mangkaja studio at Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The sheets had been used to protect a wall mural from the elements. When artist Sonia Kurarra discovered them, she decided to paint a large work on one of the sheets and so it began.” - excerpt of Bold Thinking that Breaks the Mould, published in the AFR Online, Feb 29, 2020 Tommy May was a Wangkajunga and Walmajarri man who was born at Yarrnkurnja on the Canning Stock Route in the Great Sandy Desert. He danced and sung Kurtal, a ceremony relating to the main jila [permanent waterhole] in his country. According to the artist, "This is a story about Dreamtime people before Canning. Before whitefella come with a camel, Dreamtime people were there. These two blokes, Kurtal and Kaningarra, they been looking after the two waterholes, cleaning all the time." As a young woman, Lisa Uhl paints the secular subject matter of trees. in particular, the turtutjarti (walnut trees) and kurrkapi (desert oaks) of Wangkajungka country on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert. The Desert Oak provides shade in the desert and the nectar of the flowers is sweet and edible. This piece is a fine example of an Australian Aboriginal artwork.

    Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art)
  • TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA (c.1935-2022) (Language group: Wangkajunga/Walmajarri) Tarrkaji Kunyikarra synthetic polymer paint on canvas 87....
    Oct. 22, 2024

    TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA (c.1935-2022) (Language group: Wangkajunga/Walmajarri) Tarrkaji Kunyikarra synthetic polymer paint on canvas 87....

    Est: $2,000 - $4,000

    TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA (c.1935-2022) (Language group: Wangkajunga/Walmajarri) Tarrkaji Kunyikarra synthetic polymer paint on canvas inscribed verso with artist's name and Mangkaja Arts cat. no. 108/12 87.5 x 89cm PROVENANCE: Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency Aboriginal Corporation, Western Australia Short St. Gallery, Western Australia (accompanied by a copy of the certificate of authenticity) Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: "This painting is my mother's country. When me and my brother were young boys we always be together, playing, going out hunting. Every morning we used to go out looking for black berries, hunting kangaroo, goannas, emus etc." As stated on the Short St. Gallery certificate of authenticity © Tommy May Ngarralja/Copyright Agency, 2023

    Leonard Joel
  • TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA (born c.1935) (Language group: Wangkajunga/Walmajarri) Tarrkaji Kunyikarra synthetic polymer paint on canvas 87....
    Aug. 28, 2023

    TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA (born c.1935) (Language group: Wangkajunga/Walmajarri) Tarrkaji Kunyikarra synthetic polymer paint on canvas 87....

    Est: $2,000 - $4,000

    TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA (born c.1935) (Language group: Wangkajunga/Walmajarri) Tarrkaji Kunyikarra synthetic polymer paint on canvas inscribed verso with artist's name and Mangkaja Arts cat. no. 108/12 87.5 x 89cm PROVENANCE: Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency Aboriginal Corporation, Western Australia Short St. Gallery, Western Australia (accompanied by a copy of a certificate of authenticity) Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: "This painting is my mother's country. When me and my brother were young boys we always be together, playing, going out hunting. Every morning we used to go out looking for black berries, hunting kangaroo, goannas, emus etc.", The Artist As stated on the Short St. Gallery certificate of authenticity © Tommy May Ngarralja/Copyright Agency, 2023

    Leonard Joel
  • Ngarralja Tommy May (c. 1930) - Puja
    Feb. 28, 2017

    Ngarralja Tommy May (c. 1930) - Puja

    Est: $200 - $300

    linocut, edition 14/30, signed and numbered below image, '14/30 TOMMY MAY'

    Shapiro Auctioneers
  • TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA (BORN 1935) Untitled linocut 1/15
    May. 09, 2013

    TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA (BORN 1935) Untitled linocut 1/15

    Est: $150 - $250

    TOMMY MAY NGARRALJA (BORN 1935) Untitled linocut 1/15 signed lower centre editioned lower left 44 x 64cm

    Leonard Joel
  • Tommy May (Ngarralja) born 1935 DJUGERARI HILLS (2000) synthetic polymer paint on linen
    Jun. 05, 2012

    Tommy May (Ngarralja) born 1935 DJUGERARI HILLS (2000) synthetic polymer paint on linen

    Est: $6,000 - $8,000

    Tommy May (Ngarralja) born 1935 DJUGERARI HILLS (2000) synthetic polymer paint on linen 120 X 90CM PROVENANCE Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing Private Collection, New South Wales This painting is sold with a Mangkaja Resource Agency certificate that reads: 'My wife and her aunty went hunting, in the hills around Djugerari. They found a kangaroo there. Their dog attacked it and they hit it with sticks. They had to send for the men to come and kill it, they were not used to hunting kangaroo, only smaller meat like goanna and snake.' PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

    Smith & Singer
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