WILKINKARRA, 2007

Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
Sydney
2 December 2015
199

PAULINE SUNFLY NANGALA

born 1957
WILKINKARRA, 2007

synthetic polymer paint on linen

150.0 x 75.0 cm

Estimate: 
$5,000 – 7,000
Sold for $5,490 (inc. BP) in Auction 41 - 2 December 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia
Private collection, Melbourne

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Warlayirti Artists which states: ‘Pauline’s father Sunfly Tjampitjin, was a senior custodian for country south of Balgo, near the vast salt lake of Wilkinkara (Lake MacKay). The country depicted here is named Liltjin. The many lines throughout the painting are dry creekbeds which during the wet season flow into Wilkinkara. During the Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) people lived in the holes depicted.’