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Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art - 14 October 2009  |  Melbourne

Lot 119
Walangkura Napanangka
born c.1946
WIRRULNGA, 1999

synthetic polymer paint on linen

107.0 x 122.0 cm



Estimate:
$7,000 - 10,000


Lot sold: $7,200 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Walangkura Napanangka
born c.1946
WIRRULNGA, 1999

synthetic polymer paint on linen

107.0 x 122.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd cat. WN9910256

Provenance

Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs
Private collection, Melbourne

 

Catalogue text

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs

This painting is associated with Wirrulnga, a place with two rockholes, near the Kiwirrkura Community. The story describes how a large group of women came from Marrapinti to the west and visited this site to gather berries known as ngamunypurru or conkerberry from the shrub Carissa lanceolata and the kampurarrpa or desert raisin from the small shrub Solanum centrale.