Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art - 18 May 2011 | Melbourne
synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board
55.0 x 52.0 cm
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Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri
synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board
55.0 x 52.0 cm
inscribed verso: artist’s initials MN and Papunya Tula Artists cat. 19307
Executed at Papunya, Northern Territory
Graeme Marshall Collection,
Papunya, acquired 1972
Private collection, South Australia,
acquired from the above in 1979
Twenty-five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, The Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, September - December 1999
Mellor, D., and Megaw, V., Twenty-five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, 1999 (illus.)
Mick Namarari has painted many different versions of his Dingo Dreaming. The principle Dingo Dreaming site is at Nyunmanu, to the South East of Kintore. The home of the Dingo Ancestors is on top of the hill at that site. This hill is represented by a series of concentric circles. The 'Dingo Puppies' have moved out in all directions from Nyunmanu. The puppies and the directions travelled are shown in this painting.