UNTITLED, 2004

Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
Sydney
2 December 2015
183

NAATA NUNGURRAYI

born c.1932
UNTITLED, 2004

synthetic polymer paint on linen

93.5 x 94.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists cat. NN0409023

Estimate: 
$4,000 – 6,000
Sold for $4,880 (inc. BP) in Auction 41 - 2 December 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Commissioned in 2004 for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Private collection, Melbourne

Catalogue text

This painting depicts designs associated with Yunala, a rockhole and soakage water site situated among sandhills just to the west of the Kiwirrkura community in Western Australia. During ancestral times a group of women camped at this site after travelling further west. While at Yunala the women camped beside the rockhole, digging for the edible roots of the bush banana or silky pear vine Marsdenia australis, also known as yunala. The lines in this painting represent both the sandhills surrounding the site and the yunala. The women later continued their travels towards the east, passing through the Kiwirrkura area on their way to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).