Lot 82: UTA UTA TJANGALA 1926-1990

UNTITLED (TWO BOYS DREAMING) 1972

MEASUREMENTS

45.5 by 40.5 cm

Bears a field diagram of the work by Geoffrey Bardon attached to the reverse
Synthetic polymer powder paint, PVA and natural earth pigments on composition board

PROVENANCE
Purchased directly from the artist at Papunya in June/July 1972 W. L. Jackson Collection of Early Western Desert Paintings, Victoria Sotheby's I mportant Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 June 1999, lot 74 Private collection, Victoria
LITERATURE
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, p.498, painting 485 where Bardon calls this work, 'Pintubi Boy's Hairpiece Dreaming' and describes the iconography as 'four young people indicated by the U shapes, sit at fires with a ritual hairpiece. There are Water Dreaming themes rich in decorative patterning and motifs including a sand mosaic in the bottom right hand corner of the design' Cf. Bardon, G., Papunya Tula Art of the Western Desert, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1991, pp.97-98 for illustrations of two stylistically related paintings both completed in 1972 entitled 'Boys' Coroborree Dreaming' and 'Snake Dreaming'