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Modern + Contemporary Art - 13 June 2018  |  Melbourne

Lot 61
Inyuwa Nampitjinpa
(c.1922 – 1999)
WOMEN’S DREAMING AT THE WATER SITE OF PUNKILPIRRI, 1998

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

122.0 x 122.0 cm



Estimate:
$7,000 – 9,000


Lot sold: $6,100 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Inyuwa Nampitjinpa
(c.1922 – 1999)
WOMEN’S DREAMING AT THE WATER SITE OF PUNKILPIRRI, 1998

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

122.0 x 122.0 cm

bears inscription verso, artist’s name and Papunya Tula Artists cat. IN980531

Provenance

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne
Private collection, Brisbane, acquired from the above in September 2007

Exhibited

Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy, 29 June – 26 August 2001; Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 23 February – 23 June 2002; Palazzo Vaj, Monash University at Prato, Prato, Italy, 2 – 30 July 2003; The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem, Israel, 21 October – 19 December 2003; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 2 October 2004 – 30 January 2005, cat. 27 (label attached verso)

Literature

Bardon, G., (et al.), Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 2004, p. 28 (illus.)

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs.