YOLNGU’YULNGU AND DJORRA, 2014

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
136

NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU

born c.1945
YOLNGU’YULNGU AND DJORRA, 2014

four works on paper: felt tip pen and earth pigments on discarded photography paper

each: 75.5 x 56.0 cm

Estimate: 
$3,000 – 4,000 (4)
Sold for $5,124 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory (cats. TPA080, TPA128, TPA115, TPA109)
The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate from Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts which states: ‘Nyapanyapa’s work has been more valued for the spontaneity and texture of her hand. She expresses her capacity to live in the moment in the freeness or her mark making. There is no calculation or even regard for the audience in her renditions. Their final appearance is almost random. They are an expression of the movements of her hand as they happen to have taken place on that particular day.’