Lot 108: ANATJARI TJAKAMARRA, CIRCA 1930-1992 YARRANYANGA 1989 152 by 122 cm Synthetic polymer paint on linen Bears artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number AT890465 on the reverse Provenance: Painted in 1989 at Kiwirrkura for Papunya

ANATJARI TJAKAMARRA, CIRCA 1930-1992 YARRANYANGA 1989 152 by 122 cm Synthetic polymer paint on linen Bears artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number AT890465 on the reverse Provenance: Painted in 1989 at Kiwirrkura for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne Cf. Women's Dreaming at Wakulangna, 1991, illustrated in Crossroads, Toward a New Reality: from Australia, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1992, p.92, pl.64 This painting is sold with an accompanying certificate from Papunya Tula Artists that reads: 'The site of Yarranyanga, a claypan with a number of small rockholes in sandhill country to the south of Kintore, near Tjukula is depicted in this work. In ancestral times a group of Tingari Men travelled through this area before continuing east. Because of the secret nature of events associated with the Tingari Cycle, no further detail was given. Generally, the Tingari are a group of ancestors who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari men were usually followed by Tingari women and accompanied by novices and their travels and adventures are enshrined in a number of song cycles. These mythologies form part of the teachings of the post-initiate youths today as well as providing explanations for contemporary events'. A fine example of the artist's esoteric Tingari cycle images It is closely related to many of the works included in his solo exhibition of 1989 at the John Webber Gallery, New York, from which the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired Tingari Cycle Dreaming, the first contemporary work of to enter the Museum's collection.