Lot 134: BOXER MILNER TJAMPITJIN , BORN CIRCA 1934 RAINBOW SERPENT AT STURT CREEK Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Bears artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 392/99A on the reverse Synthetic polymer paint on linen

180 by 120 cm

Pinti Pinti - Milk Water Country, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2000

Painted at Billiluna in 1999
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Private collection, USA

This painting is sold with an accompanying Warlayirti Artists certificate that reads in part: 'This painting is set in Boxer's traditional country, along the banks of Sturt Creek, and depicts a part of the Rainbow Dreaming Story. The white bands are clouds, as they let loose the rain onto the Sturt Creek basin, while the other bands of colour show Sturt Creek through different stages of flooding and drying out. The pink that dominates this painting is the flood waters as they run between the different waterholes. The small, dynamic black triangle is water flooding into the Ngarradi waterhole.'