Maggie Napangardi Watson Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Maggie Napangardi Watson Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 22, 2024
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (c.1921-2004) (Language Group: Warlipiri) Yala Jukurrpa 1989 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 136 x 87cm
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (c.1921-2004) (Language Group: Warlipiri) Yala Jukurrpa 1989 synthetic polymer paint on canvas inscribed verso with artist's name, title and Warlukurlangu Artists cat. no. 73/89 136 x 87cm PROVENANCE: Warlukurlangu Artists, Northern Territory (accompanied by the certificate of authenticity) Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: "The site of this painting is west of Yuendumu in the Tanami. The Country was created by the Dreamtime Ancestors and the concentric circles represent the places they travelled through. The lines show the ngamarna, the superficial roots of the plant, and shows the path of the dreaming." As stated on the Warlukurlangu Artists certificate of authenticity © Maggie Watson Napangardi/Copyright Agency, 2024
Leonard Joel
Sep. 12, 2024
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (c.1921-2004) (Language Group: Warlipiri) Kanakurlangu Jukurrpa (Digging Stick Dreaming) synthetic polymer...
Est: $2,200 - $4,200
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (c.1921-2004) (Language Group: Warlipiri) Kanakurlangu Jukurrpa (Digging Stick Dreaming) synthetic polymer paint on board inscribed verso with artist's name, title and Warlukurlangu Artists cat. no. 121/90 and stamp verso 40.5 x 50.5cm
Leonard Joel
Sep. 05, 2024
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (c.1921-2004) (Language Group: Warlipiri) Kanakurlangu Jukurrpa (Digging Stick Dreaming) synthetic polymer...
Est: $2,800 - $4,800
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (c.1921-2004) (Language Group: Warlipiri) Kanakurlangu Jukurrpa (Digging Stick Dreaming) synthetic polymer paint on board inscribed verso with artist's name, title and Warlukurlangu Artists cat. no. 121/90 and stamp verso 40.5 x 50.5cm
Leonard Joel
Aug. 29, 2024
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (c.1921-2004) (Language Group: Warlipiri) Kanakurlangu Jukurrpa (Digging Stick Dreaming) synthetic polymer...
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (c.1921-2004) (Language Group: Warlipiri) Kanakurlangu Jukurrpa (Digging Stick Dreaming) synthetic polymer paint on board inscribed verso with artist's name, title and Warlukurlangu Artists cat. no. 121/90 and stamp verso 40.5 x 50.5cm
Leonard Joel
Mar. 27, 2024
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004), Mina Mina - Painted Coolamon 1997
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MR RODNEY MENZIES, MELBOURNE MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Mina Mina - Painted Coolamon 1997 synthetic polymer paint on wood 85.0 x 32.0 cm (irreg.) accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Kimberley Art, Melbourne
Menzies
Mar. 05, 2024
Maggie Watson Napangardi - Mina Mina Dreaming, 1995
Est: $90,000 - $150,000
Maggie Watson was a leader amongst a group of Warlpiri women artists who began to challenge the dominance of menâs acrylic painting in the central desert region from the mid-1980s. The emergence of these women in Yuendumu and simultaneously in Utopia (amongst Anamtjerre and Alyawarre peoples) challenged the false anthropological assumption that men were the sole guardians of the visual life of these communities. The historical evolution of the movement of which Maggie was part, began with the encouragement of more permanent painting techniques in the 1970s in both Yuendumu and Papunya. With the introduction of acrylics in the 1980s, the women artists progressed from painting ritual objects for sale to painting on boards as a source of revenue. In rejecting desert ochres used for ceremony in favour of vibrant acrylics, during the mid-1980s, these women grasped the opportunity to express their feeling for country in an unforeseen and novel way. The use of flamboyant colour and richly textured surfaces became the hallmark of Maggie Watsonâs paintings. Her willingness to adopt vibrant acrylic colours was founded upon the Warlpiri womenâs response to shiny shimmering surfaces. During ceremony women apply red ochre mixed with animal fat to their skin. It is associated with the health, vitality, beauty, and allure of their female ancestors. Maggie Watsonâs works are characterised by striated bands of alternating colour, shimmering across the surface of her canvases. They mimic the movement of the ancestral women as they danced across the landscape, the claypans, soakages, and sandhill country through which they passed. This large scale Digging Stick Dreaming, created over several months in 1995, is believed to be the magnum opus of Maggie Watsonâs career, which ended just 3 years later. Here we see a spectacular representation of the artistâs country through a story that she shares with other well-known artists, including her sister Judy Watson (who she taught to paint) and Dorothy Napangardi. The grandeur of the country is mapped out with an impressive geometry of clearly delineated roundels joined by ribbons of finely dotted colour. Rendered in an inventive palette, it flows like rivers from one junction to another in an intriguing patchwork. Soft browns, tans, oranges, vermilions, and yellows are offset quite brilliantly with white, imparting a magical shimmer and depth to the surface. During the Dreaming, digging sticks (Kana) magically emerged from the land at Mina Mina, equipping a large number of ancestral women for their travels over a vast stretch of country. The tall Desert Oaks (Kurrkapi), which grow near Mina Mina, symbolise their appearance as they rose up from beneath the ground itself in the Dreamtime. To this day they are thought of as both the living embodiments of those digging sticks as well as the lithe, upright young women who were amongst their bearers. As the women danced their way across the desert in joyous exultation they clutched the digging sticks in their outstretched hands. Dancing in a long line they created important sites and encountered other Dreamings. Hundreds of these women travelled on the long journey first toward the east, then to the north, then to the south collecting plants and foods with both medicinal and ceremonial uses. They visited many sites, resting at some, going underground at others and later re-emerging or morphing into different, sometimes malevolent, beings. These powerful ancestral women were involved in initiation ceremonies and used human hair-string spun and rubbed with special red ochre and fat as part of their magic. In 1985, Maggie Watson had her first exhibition at Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs. It was the beginning of a career of some 13 years, which would see her work exhibited in major state galleries all around Australia. These include the major exhibitions: 'Yuendumu: Paintings out of the Desert', South Australian Museum exhibition in 1988 and 'Power of the Landâ â Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1994. During her lifetime her works were exhibited internationally in Tucson, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Diego, and Miami in the USA, as well as in Paris, Dusseldorf, London, and Auckland.
Cooee Art
Nov. 08, 2023
Maggie Watson Napangardi - Digging Stick Dreaming, 1995/1996
Est: $90,000 - $150,000
Maggie Watson was a leader amongst a group of Warlpiri women artists who began to challenge the dominance of menâs acrylic painting in the central desert region from the mid-1980s. The emergence of these women in Yuendumu and simultaneously in Utopia (amongst Anamtjerre and Alyawarre peoples) challenged the false anthropological assumption that men were the sole guardians of the visual life of these communities. The historical evolution of the movement of which Maggie was part, began with the encouragement of more permanent painting techniques in the 1970s in both Yuendumu and Papunya. With the introduction of acrylics in the 1980s, the women artists progressed from painting ritual objects for sale to painting on boards as a source of revenue.
Cooee Art
Jun. 28, 2023
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004), Warlpiri language group, Hair String Dreaming 1997
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Warlpiri language group Hair String Dreaming 1997 synthetic polymer paint on linen 184.0 x 92.0 cm bears inscription verso: MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON/ KA500-97/ ABOP581
Menzies
Jun. 22, 2023
Maggie Watson Napangardi, 1921-2004, Snake Vine
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Maggie Watson Napangardi 1921-2004 Snake Vine acrylic on canvas board 1991, Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, Yuendumu, cat. no. 150/91, acquired from the above in 1991, Collection of Richard Kelton and Kerry Smallwood Kelton, Santa Monica
Abell Auction
Apr. 04, 2023
Maggie Napangardi Watson (circa 1921-2004) Women's Dreaming at Janyinki, 1992
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Maggie Napangardi Watson (circa 1921-2004) Women's Dreaming at Janyinki, 1992 inscribed verso: '107/92 / P / Maggie Napangardi Watson / Warlukurlangu Artists' synthetic polymer paint on linen 152.5 x 107.0cm (60 1/16 x 42 1/8in).
Bonhams
Nov. 29, 2022
Maggie Napangardi Watson (circa 1921-2004) Bush Potato Dreaming, 1990
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
Maggie Napangardi Watson (circa 1921-2004) Bush Potato Dreaming, 1990 inscribed verso: '164/90 / P Maggie Napangardi Watson / Warlukurlangu Artists' synthetic polymer paint on linen 91.0 x 91.0cm (35 13/16 x 35 13/16in).
Bonhams
Mar. 08, 2022
Maggie Watson Napangardi - Women's Hair String Ceremony, 1992
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Maggie Watson began painting at 60 years of age. She was a leader amongst a group of women artists who challenged the dominance of menâs acrylic painting in the Central Desert region. The emergence of these women in Yuendumu, and simultaneously in Utopia, challenged the notion that men were the sole guardians of the visual life of communities. Amongst the major themes depicted by Maggie Watson was the important Warlpiri womenâs Dreaming of the Karntakurlangu. This epic tale recounts the travel of a large group of ancestral women, the hair string belts and Ngalyipi (Tinospora smilacina or snake vine) were used to carry their babies and possessions, and the magical emergence of digging sticks, which literally thrust themselves out of the ground before the women during the Dreaming, equipped them for their travels. As the women danced their way across the desert in joyous exultation, they clutched the digging sticks. Dancing in a long line, they created important sites and encountered other Dreamings. Maggie Watsonâs paintings are characterised by their linear precision, created by applying dots in alternating bands of colour. When viewed in varying arrays across the canvas, these meticulously applied striations impart a rhythmic trancelike quality, thereby evoking the movement of lines of women as they dance and chant during ceremony.
Cooee Art
Jun. 08, 2021
Maggie Watson Napangardi - Mina Mina, 1997
Est: $18,000 - $25,000
Cooee Art Indigenous Fine Art Auction "Maggie Watson began painting at 60 years of age, becoming the senior female artist at Yuendumu by the time of her death in 2004. Though she created paintings for 15 years and was never a prolific artist, she was a leader amongst a group of women artists who began to challenge the dominance of men+IBk-s acrylic painting in the Central Desert region from the mid 1980s. The emergence of these women in Yuendumu and simultaneously in Utopia (amongst Anmatjerre and Alyawarre peoples) challenged the notion that men were the sole guardians of the visual life of these communities. Foremost amongst the major themes depicted by Maggie Watson was the important Warlpiri women+IBk-s Dreaming of the Karntakurlangu. This epic tale recounts the travel of a large group of ancestral women, the hair string belts and Ngalyipi (Tinospora smilacina or snake vine) they used to carry their babies and possessions, and the magical emergence of digging sticks which literally thrust themselves out of the ground before the women during the Dreaming, thereby equipping them for their vast travels. As the women danced their way across the desert in joyous exultation they clutched the digging sticks in their outstretched hands. Dancing in a long line, they created important sites and encountered other Dreamings. Hundreds of these women travelled on the long journey, first toward the east, then to the north, then south collecting plants and foods with both medicinal and ceremonial uses. They visited many sites, resting at some, going underground at others, and later re-emerged morphing into different, sometimes malevolent, beings. These powerful ancestral women were involved in initiation ceremonies and used human hair-string spun and rubbed with special red ochre and fat as part of their magic, just as women do to this day when performing ceremonies that connect them with their Jukurrpa (Dreamings). The digging sticks are regarded as symbolically manifest in desert oaks growing in their homeland near Mina Mina, a central location for much of the story that relates to Warlpiri lands west of Yuendumu. Maggie Watson+IBk-s paintings are characterised by the linear precision created by dots applied in alternating bands of colour. When viewed in varying arrays across the canvas, these meticulously applied textured striations impart a rhythmic trancelike quality, thereby evoking the movement of lines of women as they dance and chant during ceremony. " Contact Cooee Art for more information on this Aboriginal artwork.
Cooee Art
Sep. 22, 2020
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Untitled 1989 synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Untitled 1989 synthetic polymer paint on linen artist's name and Warlukurlangu Artists cat no. 393/89 inscribed verso 92 x 91.5cm PROVENANCE: Warlukurlangu Artists, Northern Territory Private collection, Melbourne OTHER NOTES: © Maggie Watson Napangardi/Copyright Agency, 2020
Leonard Joel
Jul. 22, 2020
Maggie Napangardi Watson (circa 1921-2004) Mina Mina, 1995
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
Maggie Napangardi Watson (circa 1921-2004) Mina Mina, 1995 inscribed verso: 'MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON / 188 X 104cm # / 'NGALYIPI' / KAMW200/95 / A794 Yapa art' synthetic polymer paint on linen 187.5 x 104.0cm (73 13/16 x 40 15/16in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Jun. 23, 2020
Maggie Watson Napangardi - Hair String and Snake Vine Dreaming
Est: $15,000 - $18,000
Maggie Watson began painting at 60 years of age. By the time of her death 19 years later in 2004, she had become the senior female artist at Yuendumu, 300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs. She was a leader among a group of women artists who began to challenge the dominance of menâs acrylic painting in the Central Desert region from the mid 1980s. The emergence of these women in Yuendumu and simultaneously in Utopia (amongst Anamtjerre and Alyawarre peoples) challenged the notion that men were the sole guardians of the visual life of these communities. Foremost amongst the major themes depicted by Maggie Watson, Dorothy Napangardi Robertson, and other female Yuendumu artists is the important Warlpiri womenâs Dreaming of the Karntakurlangu. This epic tale recounts the travel of a large group of ancestral women, the hair string belts they made to carry their babies and possessions, and the magical emergence of digging sticks which, quite literally, thrust themselves out of the ground before the women during the Dreaming, thereby equipping them for their vast travels. As the women danced their way across the desert in joyous exultation, they clutched the digging sticks in their outstretched hands. Dancing in a long line they created important sites and encountered other Dreamings. Hundreds of these women travelled on the long journey first toward the east, then to the north and south, collecting plants and foods with both medicinal and ceremonial uses. They visited many sites, resting at some, going underground at others and later re-emerged, morphing into different, sometimes malevolent, beings. These powerful ancestral women were involved in initiation ceremonies. They used human hair-string spun and rubbed with special red ochre and fat as part of their magic, just as women do to this day when performing ceremonies that connect them with their Jukurrpa. The digging sticks symbolically manifest as desert oaks, growing in their homeland near Mina Mina, a central location for much of the story that relates to Warlpiri lands west of Yuendumu.
Cooee Art
Dec. 03, 2019
Maggie Watson Napangardi (1921-2004) Mina Mina Dreaming
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Maggie Watson began painting at 60 and became the senior female artist at Yuendumu by the time of her death in 2004. Though she created paintings for 15 years and was never a prolific artist, she was a leader amongst a group of women artists who began to challenge the dominance of men’s acrylic painting in the Central Desert region from the mid 1980s. The emergence of these women in Yuendumu and simultaneously in Utopia (amongst Anamtjerre and Alyawarre peoples) challenged the notion that men were the sole guardians of the visual life of these communities. This small work, created for her son-in-law, depicts sites in the Mina Mina region west of Yuendumu.
Cooee Art
Aug. 08, 2019
§ MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI, HONEY ANTS, ACRYLIC ON CANVASBOARD, WARLAKURLANGU ARTISTS STAMP AND CAT NP: BN69/89 VERSO, 60 X 45CM, PROV.
Est: $700 - $1,400
§ MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI, HONEY ANTS, ACRYLIC ON CANVASBOARD, WARLAKURLANGU ARTISTS STAMP AND CAT NP: BN69/89 VERSO, 60 X 45CM, PROVENANCE: LEONARD JOEL, 23 JUNE 2015
Leonard Joel
Jul. 18, 2019
§ MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI, HONEY ANTS, ACRYLIC ON CANVASBOARD, WARLAKURLANGU ARTISTS STAMP AND CAT NP: BN69/89 VERSO, 60 X 45CM, PROV.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
§ MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI, HONEY ANTS, ACRYLIC ON CANVASBOARD, WARLAKURLANGU ARTISTS STAMP AND CAT NP: BN69/89 VERSO, 60 X 45CM, PROVENANCE: LEONARD JOEL, 23 JUNE 2015
Leonard Joel
Nov. 27, 2018
Maggie Watson Napangardi (1921-2004) Mina Mina 1997
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Maggie Watson began painting at 60 years of age and became the senior female artist at Yuendumu by the time of her death in 2004. Though she created paintings for 15 years and was never a prolific artist, she was a leader amongst a group of women artists who began to challenge the dominance of men’s acrylic painting in the Central Desert region from the mid 1980s. The emergence of these women in Yuendumu and simultaneously in Utopia (amongst Anamtjerre and Alyawarre peoples) challenged the notion that men were the sole guardians of the visual life of these communities. Foremost amongst the major themes depicted by Maggie Watson was the important Warlpiri women’s Dreaming of the Karntakurlangu. This epic tale recounts the travel of a large group of ancestral women, the hair string belts and Ngalyipi (Tinospora smilacina or snake vine) they used to carry their babies and possessions, and the magical emergence of digging sticks which, quite literally, thrust themselves out of the ground before the women during the Dreaming, thereby equipping them for their vast travels. As the women danced their way across the desert in joyous exultation they clutched the digging sticks in their outstretched hands. Dancing in a long line they created important sites and encountered other Dreamings. Hundreds of these women travelled on the long journey first toward the east, then to the north, then south collecting plants and foods with both medicinal and ceremonial uses. They visited many sites, resting at some, going underground at others and later re-emerged morphing into different, sometimes malevolent, beings. These powerful ancestral women were involved in initiation ceremonies and used human hair-string spun and rubbed with special red ochre and fat as part of their magic just as women do to this day when performing ceremonies that connect them with their Jukurrpa. The digging sticks are regarded as symbolically manifest as desert oaks growing in their homeland near Mina Mina, a central location for much of the story that relates to Warlpiri lands west of Yuendumu. Maggie Watson’s paintings are characterised by the linear precision created by dots applied in alternating bands of colour. When viewed in varying arrays across the canvas these meticulously applied textured striations impart a rhythmic trancelike quality thereby evoking the movement of lines of women as they dance, and their repeated chanting during ceremony.
Cooee Art
Nov. 27, 2018
Maggie Watson Napangardi (1921-2004) Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women Dreaming) 1993
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Maggie Watson was a leader amongst a group of women artists who began to challenge the dominance of men’s acrylic painting in the Central Desert region from the mid 1980s. The emergence of these women in Yuendumu and simultaneously in Utopia (amongst Anamtjerre and Alyawarre peoples) challenged the notion that men were the sole guardians of the visual life of these communities. The country associated with this painting is Mina Mina, a place far west of Yuendumu, significant to Napangardi and Napanangka women who are the custodians of the Jukurrpa that created the area. The Dreaming describes the journey of a group of women of all ages who travelled east gathering food, collecting Ngalyipi (Tinospora smilacina or snake vine) and performing ceremonies as they travelled.
Cooee Art
Sep. 13, 2018
Maggie Watson Napangardi (Australian, b. 1925) Mina Mina synthetic polymer paint on canvas 79 ½ x 43 ¼in. (202 x 110cm.)
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (AUSTRALIAN, B. 1925) Mina Mina with inscription 'MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON / KAMW 201/96 / 202 x 110cm' on the reverse synthetic polymer paint on canvas 79 1/2 x 43ºin. (202 x 110cm.)
Christie's
Jun. 13, 2018
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON, (1921 2004), NGALYIPI, 1996, synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON, (1921 2004), NGALYIPI, 1996, synthetic polymer paint on linen SIGNED: bears inscription verso: artist's name and Warlukurlangu Artists cat. 109/96 P DIMENSIONS: 182.0 x 61.5 cm PROVENANCE: Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, Northern Territory Chapman Gallery, Canberra Private collection, Brisbane, acquired from the above in March 1997 This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu. Maggie Napangardi Watson lived and worked in Yuendumu, Northern Territory language group: Warlpiri SELECTED COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Deutscher and Hackett
Feb. 28, 2018
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON (c.1921-2004) Women's Dreaming 2002 acrylic on linen
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON (c.1921-2004) Women's Dreaming 2002 acrylic on linen inscribed verso with artist's name and Warlukurlangu Artists, WA cat no. 462/02 91.5 x 31 cm
Leonard Joel
Nov. 30, 2017
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004), Warlpiri language group Kana, Digging Sticks 1995
Est: $35,000 - $45,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004), Warlpiri language group Kana, Digging Sticks 1995 MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004), Warlpiri language group Kana, Digging Sticks 1995 synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 180.0 x 125.0 cm bears artist's name and inscription verso: MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI/ DIGGING STICKS/ YUENDUMU 1995 , accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Ladner + Fell, Melbourne , Ladner + Fell, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne, since 2006
Menzies
May. 11, 2017
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004), Warlpiri language group Mina Mina Dreaming 1995
Est: $150,000 - $180,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004), Warlpiri language group Mina Mina Dreaming 1995 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 201.5 x 148.5 cm inscribed verso: NAPANGARDI WATSON/ #/ KAMW004/95 Kimberley Art, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 19 June 2008, lot 248 Private collection, Melbourne Bois de Chesne, C., Melbourne Top Art and Food, Bois de Chesne Design, Melbourne, 2005 (illus. p.29, image in reverse)
Menzies
May. 10, 2017
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON, (1921 – 2004), DIGGING STICKS, 1990, synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON, (1921 – 2004), DIGGING STICKS, 1990, synthetic polymer paint on canvas SIGNED: bears inscription verso: artist’s name and Warlukurlangu Artists cat. 61/90 DIMENSIONS: 76.0 x 91.5 cm PROVENANCE: Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu Friends of the Earth Manyuku Gallery, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1990 EXHIBITED: Yuendumu, Ramingining, Bathurst Island - acrylic paintings from Warlukurlangu artists of Yuendumu, bark paintings from Bulabula Arts of Ramingining and screen-printed fabrics from Tiwi Designs of Bathurst Island, Manyuku Gallery, Melbourne, 9 – 21 October 1990
Deutscher and Hackett
Dec. 11, 2016
Maggie Watson Napangardi 1993 Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women Dreaming) Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen
Est: $2,200 - $3,500
Maggie Watson Napangardi 1993 Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women Dreaming) Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen 54 x 47cm PROVENANCE: Private Collection, S.A Lawson Menzies Auction November 2004 Private Collection, NSW. Accompanied by 3 photographs of the artist working on the painting and 3 of her with the artwork OTHER NOTES: The country associated with this painting is Mina Mina, a place far west of Yuendumu, significant to Napangardi and Napanangka women who are the custodians of the Jukurrpa that created the area. The Dreaming describes the journey of a group of women of all ages who travelled east gathering food, collecting Ngalyipi (Tinospora smilacina or snake vine) and performing ceremonies as they travelled.
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Dec. 10, 2015
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Warlpiri language group Digging Stick Dreaming 1995
Est: $240,000 - $300,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Warlpiri language group Digging Stick Dreaming c1912-13 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen 201.0 x 351.0 cm
Menzies
Jun. 23, 2015
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Honey Ants 1989 acrylic on canvas panel
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Honey Ants 1989 acrylic on canvas panel Warlukurlangu Artists stamp and cat. no. BN69/89 inscribed verso 60 x 45cm PROVENANCE: Purchased at a Friends Of The Earth Fundraiser, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Mar. 08, 2015
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON, (1921 - 2004), WOMEN'S DREAMING, 1996, synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $60,000 - $80,000
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON, (1921 - 2004), WOMEN'S DREAMING, 1996, synthetic polymer paint on linen SIGNED: inscribed verso: artist's name and Kimberley Art cat. KAMW 202/96 DIMENSIONS: 195.5 x 134.0 cm EXHIBITED: The Laverty Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 20 June - 23 August 1998 LITERATURE: Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, p. 87 (illus.) Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art: The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, edition II, Kleimeyer Industries Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 2011, p. 93 (illus.) PROVENANCE: Kimberley Art, Melbourne The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, purchased in February 1998
Deutscher and Hackett
Mar. 02, 2015
JUDY WATSON NAPANGARDI "Mina Mina" Acrylic on Belgium linen
Est: $600 - $900
JUDY WATSON NAPANGARDI "Mina Mina" Acrylic on Belgium linen Comes with Certificate of Authenticity Painted 2013 Artwork is ready to hang 56cm x 80cm
Ozbid Auctions
Mar. 26, 2014
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON 1921 - 2004, MUSHROOM DREAMING, 1995, synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $60,000 - $80,000
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON 1921 - 2004, MUSHROOM DREAMING, 1995, synthetic polymer paint on linen SIGNED: signed and dated verso: MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI / 1996 DIMENSIONS: 140.0 x 200.5 cm EXHIBITED: Porta Oberta al Dreamtime: Art Aborigen Contemporani d'Austràlia, 1971-2003, Fundació Caixa de Girona, Girona, Spain, 24 September - 14 November 2004, Fundació Caixa de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain, 20 November 2004 - 9 January 2005 PROVENACE: Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu Tineriba Gallery, Hahndorf (inscribed verso) Private collection, Melbourne ESSAYS: Mushroom Dreaming, 1995 is a summation of the key preoccupations of Maggie Watson Napangardi's practice. As senior custodian of the sacred salt lake, Mina Mina, located to the west of her home at Yuendumu, Napangardi paints the lush, fertile zones of the water soakages of the Mina Mina. Like all Napangardi and Napanangka women, the artist is a custodian of the bush mushroom dreaming. In this work Warlipiri women collect Jintiparnta, or bush mushrooms, at Karnakarlangu. On the clay pan the ancestral women danced and performed ceremonies causing digging sticks to rise up out of the ground, which the women then carried with them on their long journeys east. In this particular example the concentric circles represent the mushrooms collected by the women and the straight lines are the Kurkangu, or digging sticks they carried. Women have played a fundamental role in the evolution of the new art at Yuendumu and Maggie Watson, with her sister Judy, have been an inspirational force within the community. The anthropologist Francoise Dussart encouraged the women of Yuendumu to expand their painting repertoire into canvas works and in 1984 the first group of paintings were exhibited at the Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs. Mushroom Dreaming is a significant example by Maggie Watson in terms of scale and story and it was painted in a golden period for the artist. She painted the monumental Wititji (Hair string) in 1997 and this work was later acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria. LITERATURE: Planella, G. (ed.), Porta Oberta al Dreamtime: Art Aborigen Contemporani d'Austràlia, 1971-2003, Fundació Caixa de Girona, Spain, 2004, p. 27 and cover (illus.)
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 21, 2013
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004)
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women Dreaming) 1993synthetic polymer paint on linen inscribed verso: MAGGIE WATSON/ 1993/ DESERT TRIBAL ART/ ADELAIDE.
Lawson~Menzies
Aug. 08, 2013
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI, (1921-2004), Hair String
Est: $25,000 - $30,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI, (1921-2004), Hair String and Snake Vine Dreaming, 1998, synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen 190.0 x 70.5 cm accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney|
Lawson~Menzies
Jun. 27, 2013
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Digging Stick
Est: $260,000 - $320,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Digging Stick Dreaming 1995 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen 201.0 x 351.0 cm. sold with original documentation and a large folio of working photographs
Menzies
Mar. 24, 2013
Maggie Napangardi Watson (circa 1921-2004)
Est: £12,000 - £18,000
Mina Mina Dreaming, 1995 bears artist's name and catalogue number KA538/95C on the reverse synthetic polymer paint on canvas 136 x 95cm (53 9/16 x 37 3/8in).
Bonhams
Nov. 19, 2012
Maggie Napangardi Watson (circa 1921-2004)
Est: £20,000 - £25,000
Womens' Dreaming at Janyinki bears artist name on the reverse synthetic polymer paint on linen 145 x 93cm
Bonhams
Sep. 13, 2012
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Warlpiri
Est: $150,000 - $180,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Warlpiri language groupMina Mina Dreaming 1995 inscribed verso: NAPANGARDI WATSON/ #/ KAMW004/95(c) The Estate of Maggie Watson Napangardi. Licensed by VISCOPY Ltd, Australia
Menzies
Jun. 05, 2012
Maggie Watson Napangardi circa 1921-2004 KARNTA JUKURRPA (WOMEN'S DREAMING) (1989) synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
Maggie Watson Napangardi circa 1921-2004 KARNTA JUKURRPA (WOMEN'S DREAMING) (1989) synthetic polymer paint on canvas 106.5 X 106.5CM PROVENANCE Painted at Wirrimanu, Balgo Hills Warlukurlangu Artists, Alice Springs (stock 325/89) Private Collection, Victoria (1990) EXHIBITED Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Tandanya Arts Centre, Adelaide, 10 September 1991 - June 1992 LITERATURE Hetty Perkins, Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1991, p. 51, (illustrated) Elizabeth Ann MacGregor, Dancing Up Country; The art of Dorothy Napangardi, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2002, p. 78 (illustrated) This painting is sold with a Warlukurlangu Artists' certificate that reads: 'The country for this Dreaming is Janyinki, West of Yuendumu. Dreamtime Napangardi and Napanangka women travelled through there on their journey East. The women began their journey at Minamina, where digging sticks emerged from the ground, and danced their way to Janyinki, As they travelled they collected various bush foods in their parraja (food carriers). In this painting they are gathering Yarla (Bush potato). The concentric circles represent all the places they camped at. The Dreaming belongs Napangardi/Napanangka moiety.' PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, VICTORIA
Smith & Singer
Nov. 28, 2011
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Untitled (Hair String Story), acrylic on linen, 144 x 81 cm. provenance tbc
Est: $4,500 - $6,500
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Untitled (Hair String Story), acrylic on linen, 144 x 81 cm. provenance tbc
Leonard Joel
Oct. 18, 2011
Maggie Watson Napangardi circa 1921-2004 HAIR STRING AND SNAKE VINE DREAMING (1998) synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Maggie Watson Napangardi circa 1921-2004 HAIR STRING AND SNAKE VINE DREAMING (1998) synthetic polymer paint on linen 190 X 70CM PROVENANCE Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, New South Wales (stock 1744) Private Collection, New South Wales This painting is sold with gallery documentation that reads: 'The country associated with this painting is Mina Mina, a place far west of Yuendumu, significant to Napangardi and Napanangka women who are the custodians of the Jukurrpa that created the area. The Dreaming describes the journey of a group of women of all ages who travelled east gathering food, collecting Ngalyipi (Tinospora smilacina or snake vine) and performing ceremonies as they travelled.'
Smith & Singer
Sep. 14, 2011
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Warlpiri language group Digging Stick Dreaming
Est: $320,000 - $400,000
MAGGIE WATSON NAPANGARDI (1921-2004) Warlpiri language group Digging Stick Dreaming 1995 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen 201.0 x 351.0 cm
Menzies
May. 18, 2011
JUDY NAPANGARDI WATSON MINA MINA JUKURRPA, 2005
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
JUDY NAPANGARDI WATSON MINA MINA JUKURRPA, 2005 183.0 x 122.0 cm synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Deutscher and Hackett
May. 18, 2011
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON MUSHROOM DREAMING, 1996
Est: $130,000 - $150,000
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON MUSHROOM DREAMING, 1996 140.0 x 200.5 cm synthetic polymer paint on linen
Deutscher and Hackett
Jul. 26, 2010
Maggie Napangardi Watson, 1921-2004, NGALYIPI (SNAKE VINE) JUKURRPA
Est: $18,000 - $25,000
Maggie Napangardi Watson, 1921-2004, NGALYIPI (SNAKE VINE) JUKURRPA synthetic polymer paint on linen bears artist's name and Warlukurlangu Artists catalogue number 52/99 on the reverse 122 by 76CM Provenance: Painted at Yuendumu in 1999 Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu Collection of Lilli Scott, NSW Shapiro Auctio
Smith & Singer
Jul. 20, 2009
- Maggie Napangardi Watson 1921 - 2004 NGALYIPI (SNAKE VINE) JUKURRPA synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
bears artist's name and Warlukurlangu Artists catalogue number 116/97 on the reverse synthetic polymer paint on linen
Sotheby's
Oct. 20, 2008
MAGGIE NAPANGARDI WATSON , 1921-2004 BUSH MUSHROOM DREAMING Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $60,000 - $80,000
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Sotheby's