Lot 98: ANATJARI TJAKAMARRA CIRCA 1930-1992

TINGARI MEN TRAVELING TO LAKE MACDONALD 1989

MEASUREMENTS

183 by 152 cm

Bears artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number AT890610 on the reverse

PROVENANCE
Painted at Kiwirrkura in June 1989 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs Private collection, Canberra John Weber Gallery, New York Private collection, London Cf. For a related painting see 'Artist's country near Kurlkurta', 1988, in Morphy, H. and M. Smith Boles (eds.), Art from the Land: Dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe collection of Australian Aboriginal art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, 1999, p.242, plate 8.30, illus.; and for an extensive discussion of the artist's early paintings see Bardon, G. and J. Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004; and Myers, F.R., Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2002 (Myers refers to the artist as Yanyatjarri Tjakamarra). See also: Perkins, H. and H. Fink (eds.), Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with Papunya Tula Artists, Sydney, 2000; and Ryan, J., Mythscapes: Aboriginal Art of the Desert from the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1989 An excellent example of the highly formal and geometric Pintupi style in paintings related to the Tingari ancestors and perfected by artists such as Anatjari Tjakamarra. The regular and symmetrical composition reflects the ordered nature of the creation of the landscape replete with freshwater sources and sites of ancestral significance. This work refers to the travels of a group of Tingari Men from Kulkuta east to Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald) This painting is sold with an accompanying certificate from Papunya Tula Artists