NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU Paintings & Artwork for Sale | NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU Art Value Price Guide

Mar. 26, 2024
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU, MAPU, 2014
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU (c.1945 - 2021) MAPU, 2014 felt tip pen and white clay pigment on discarded photography paper 129.0 x 134.0 cm PROVENANCE Buku Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney, acquired in 2015 © courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
Mar. 26, 2024
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU, CIRCLES, 2011
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU (c.1945 - 2021) CIRCLES, 2011 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 180.0 x 80.0 cm (irregular) bears inscription verso: Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre cat. 4039M PROVENANCE Buku Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory (label attached verso) Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney, acquired in 2011 EXHIBITED Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, Birrka', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 6 – 29 October 2011, cat. 1 ESSAY Working outside of previous Yolŋu conventions, the art of Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu was unique and seemingly independent of Arnhem Land bark painting traditions. Valued for the spontaneity and texture of her hand and for the freeness of her mark making, she did not paint ancient dreaming narratives nor traditional clan designs like other Yolŋu artists; rather, her art is personal, recalling stories from her life or simply reflecting a spontaneous expression of the moment. ‘Yolŋu bark painting and sculpture traditionally conveys a temporal union between prehistory, the present and the distant future where all these time zones are happening simultaneously! This is the tense in which the creation events happened/are happening/will happen. All Yolngu art until this point was either sacred and in this tense or decorative. Decorative paintings were expressly ‘ordinary’ and without meaning or story of any kind.’1 However, once prompted in 2008 to paint the story of her almost fatal goring by a Buffalo that occurred in the 1970s, Nyapanyapa discarded these conventions and unleashed a unique set of personal narrative paintings revolving around her own experiences.2 Her early story paintings evolved quickly into an idiosyncratic method of mark making combining individual free flowing elements such as circles, squares and thick lines with underlying and rhythmic cross-hatching. Circles, 2011 is one such work – here a loose and energetic surface of white circles hover above a base of dynamic patterned and variously hued crosshatching designs. Yunupingu’s paintings are rhythmic designs mapped out in bold gestures using traditional and non-traditional materials. The looseness of her hand and her particular focus upon form and line give her art a spontaneous quality, a contrast to the tightly geometric works of many contemporary Yirrkala artists. For as Luke Scholes reveals, ‘she painted for the pure, gleeful pleasure of it. There is no ego, no desire, she is instinctively and unreservedly giving herself to each mark.’3 1. Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka Centre certificate of authenticity 2. Will Stubbs, cited in Scholes, L., ‘Anyhow in the everywhen’ in Luke Scholes (ed.), The Moment Eternal, Nyapanyapa Yunupi ŋ u, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 2020 p. 98 3. ibid p. 103 CRISPIN GUTTERIDGE © courtesy of the artist's estate and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 20, 2023
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (1943-2021) Bathala, 2012
Est: $14,000 - $18,000
natural earth pigments on hollow log
Shapiro Auctioneers
Nov. 20, 2023
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (1943-2021) Black Circles, 2012
Est: $14,000 - $18,000
natural earth pigments on hollow log
Shapiro Auctioneers
Sep. 05, 2023
NAYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU 1943-2021
Est: $500 - $900
"Untitled" 2008 Natural earth pigments on bark, inscribed verso with cat.no. 3312A and (242a). 84 x 17.5cm Provenance: Leonard Joel Sale LJ8140 May 2016 Lot 232
McKenzies Auctioneers
Mar. 22, 2023
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU, 4 BUFFALOS 4 WENDYS, 2008
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU (c.1945 - 2021) 4 BUFFALOS 4 WENDYS, 2008 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 114.0 x 62.0 cm (irregular) bears inscription verso: artist’s name and Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka cat. 3410P and 0308YIR bears inscription on Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka label verso: artist’s name, title, date, medium and size PROVENANCE Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso) The Laverty Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in October 2008 EXHIBITED Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu: Once Upon a Time, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 18 September – 11 October 2008 The Moment Eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, 25 April – 25 October 2020 LITERATURE Scholes, L., et. al., The Moment Eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋ, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, 2020, pp. 11 (illus.), 147 ESSAY This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka Centre which states in part: ‘But once prompted to treat the story of her almost fatal goring by a Buffalo in the seventies Nyapanyapa threw these conventions over and unleashed a unique set of personal narrative paintings revolving around her own experiences. This subjective, individualistic and linear narrative construction was totally out of step with all previous Yolngu art. The first of these was so surprising it was entered in the 2008 Telstra NATSIAA Award. To bolster the chances of preselection an explanatory video was produced by the newly founded digital archive and studio attached to Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, The Mulka Project. As it happened the video was completed after the bark had been accepted but the entry was varied to include the bark and video as a 3D installation. Another first! In the midst of this evolving story a visit from Roslyn Oxley planted the seed of a potential Nyapanyapa exhibition and throughout the first half of 2008 Nyapanyapa often accompanied by her sister Barrupu painted a succession of almost twenty narrative barks in the courtyard of Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka Centre. Her labours so regular they were only interrupted by ceremony. This bark shows the incident in repetitive form. During her travel to Darwin to collect her Award after this work was completed, she was awoken by a dream of the Buffalo’s red eyes staring at her. This work has a dreamlike quality, and the series was nicknamed ‘Wendy in Wonderland’ by irreverent art centre staff. The video outlining the story of this incident is included on the DVD “Nhama” released at Garma 2008.’ © courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
Mar. 22, 2023
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU, DJORRA (PAPER), 2014
Est: $14,000 - $18,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU (c.1945 - 2021) DJORRA (PAPER), 2014 12 sheets felt tip pen and white clay pigment on discarded print paper 76.0 x 56.0 cm (each) 228.0 x 224.0 cm (overall) PROVENANCE Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2014 EXHIBITED Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery at the Melbourne Art Fair, 13 - 17 August 2014 This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka Centre. Deutscher and Hackett would like to thank Will Stubbs from Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre for his assistance in cataloguing this work. © courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
Mar. 22, 2023
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU, LANDSCAPE, 2017
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPIŊU (c.1945 - 2021) LANDSCAPE, 2017 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark (stringybark) 77.0 x 195.0 cm (irregular) bears inscription on Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre label verso: artist's name, homeland and cat. 3200-17 PROVENANCE Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2017 Deutscher and Hackett would like to thank Will Stubbs from Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre for his assistance in cataloguing this work. EXHIBITED Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July - 22 October 2017 (finalist) The Moment Eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, 25 April – 25 October 2020 LITERATURE Gibson, P., 'Politics of landscape: the 2017 Wynne Prize finalists', The Conversation, 24 July 2017, https://theconversation.com/politics-of-landscape-the-2017-wynne-prize-finalists-81326 (accessed 17/02/23) Feagins, L., 'In the Running for the Wynne', The Design Files, 26 July 2017, https://thedesignfiles.net/2017/07/2017-wynne-prize-finalists/ (accessed 17/02/23) Scholes, L., et. al., The Moment Eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, 2020, pp. 123 (illus.), 147 ESSAY This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka Centre which states: ‘This bark painting was exhibited as a ﬁnalist in the Wynne Prize 2017 at the Art Gallery of NSW. 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 of 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. In early 2008 she made a dramatic departure from the previous conventions of Yolngu art. The grammatic tense which Yolngu sing/paint/discuss the creation forces that shape their world is unknown to non-Indigenous. Sometimes simpliﬁed as ‘Dreamtime’ in English it conveys a temporal union between prehistory, the present and the distant future. All of these time zones are happening simultaneously! This is the tense in which the creation events happened/are happening/will happen. All Yolngu art until this point was either sacred and in this tense or decorative. Decorative paintings were expressly ‘ordinary’ and without meaning or story of any kind. But once prompted to treat the story of her almost fatal goring by a Buﬀalo in the seventies Nyapanyapa threw these conventions over and unleashed a unique set of personal narrative paintings revolving around her own experiences. This subjective, individualistic and linear narrative construction was totally out of step with all previous Yolngu art. The ﬁrst of these was so surprising it was entered in the 2008 Telstra NATSIAA Award. To bolster the chances of preselection an explanatory video was produced by the newly founded digital archive and studio attached to Buku–Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, The Mulka Project. As it happened the video was completed and the bark had been accepted but the entry was varied to include the bark and video as a 3D installation. Another ﬁrst was achieved when it won that prize in the Telstra Award. On the night she received the prize she had a nightmare of the Buﬀalo and vowed never to paint the beast again. From here she devolved into works that initially showed the forest without the Buﬀalo; this work a gentle landscape of bush apple trees – that forest.’ © courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
Aug. 22, 2022
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU (1943-2021) (Gumatj Language Group) Untitled (Yidaki) natural earth pigments and wood
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU (1943-2021) (Gumatj Language Group) Untitled (Yidaki) natural earth pigments and wood Yidaki carved by Djalu' Gurrwiwi 152cm (height) PROVENANCE: Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Northern Territory cat. no. 4058B (accompanied by a letter dated May 2022 pertaining to the artwork's attribution and authenticity) Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Feb. 24, 2021
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU (born 1943, Gumatj Language Group) Mokuy 2008 incised Beech Hibiscus with natural earth pigments
Est: $400 - $600
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU (born 1943, Gumatj Language Group) Mokuy 2008 incised Beech Hibiscus with natural earth pigments 49cm (height) PROVENANCE: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITIONS: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu - Once Upon a Time, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 18 September – 11 October 2008
Leonard Joel
Mar. 18, 2020
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, UNTITLED (WHITE CIRCLES), 2015, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU born c.1945 UNTITLED (WHITE CIRCLES), 2015 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark SIGNED: bears inscription verso: Buku–Larrnggay Mulka Arts cat. 4740Z DIMENSIONS: 195.5 x 82.0 cm (irregular) PROVENANCE: Buku–Larrnggay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory Maclean collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in September 2015 EXHIBITED: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 7 August – 1 November 2015 (illus. in exhibition catalogue) This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Buku–Larrnggay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala 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 of 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. In early 2008 she made a dramatic departure from the previous conventions of Yolngu art. The grammatic tense which Volngu sing/paint/discuss the creation forces that shape their world is unknown to non-Indigenous. Sometimes simplified as 'Dreamtime' in English it conveys a temporal union between prehistory, the present and the distant future. All of these time zones are happening simultaneously! This is the tense in which the creation events happened/are happening/will happen. All Volngu art until this point was either sacred and in this tense or decorative. Decorative paintings were expressly 'ordinary' and without meaning or story of any kind. But once prompted to treat the story of her almost fatal goring by a Buffalo in the seventies Nyapanyapa threw these conventions over and unleashed a unique set of personal narrative paintings revolving around her own experiences. This subjective, individualistic and linear narrative construction was totally out of step with all previous Volngu art. The first of these was so surprising it was entered in the 2008 Telstra NATSIAA Award. To bolster the chances of preselection an explanatory video was produced by the newly founded digital archive and studio attached to Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, The Mulka Project. As it happened the video was completed after the bark had been accepted but the entry was varied to include the bark and video as a 30 installation. Another first was achieved when it won that prize in the Telstra Award. On the night she received the prize she had a nightmare of the Buffalo and vowed never to paint the beast again. From here she d/evolved into works that initially showed the forest without the Buffalo and then simple abstraction. This work was entered in the 2015 NATSIAA at MAGNT Darwin.’
Deutscher and Hackett
Mar. 18, 2020
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, UNTITLED (CIRCLES IN GREY AND BLACK), 2013, natural earth pigments on hollow log
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU born c.1945 UNTITLED (CIRCLES IN GREY AND BLACK), 2013 natural earth pigments on hollow log DIMENSIONS: 218.0 cm height PROVENANCE: Buku–Larrnggay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory (cat. 4430Z) Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Maclean collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in January 2014 EXHIBITED: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, My Sister's Ceremony, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 9 January – 8 February 2014, cat. 30 This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Buku–Larrnggay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala.
Deutscher and Hackett
Jul. 09, 2019
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (b. 1945)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Birrkamirri 11, 2011, paint pen on clear acetate plastic
Shapiro Auctioneers
Feb. 26, 2019
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (b. 1945)
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Birrkamirri 1, 2011, paint pen on clear acetate plastic Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Shapiro Auctioneers
Feb. 26, 2019
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (b. 1945)
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Birrkamirri 3, 2011, paint pen on clear acetate plastic Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Shapiro Auctioneers
Feb. 26, 2019
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (b. 1945)
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Birrkamirri 10, 2011, paint pen on clear acetate plastic Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Shapiro Auctioneers
Feb. 26, 2019
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (b. 1945)
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Birrkamirri 5, 2011, paint pen on clear acetate plastic Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Shapiro Auctioneers
Feb. 26, 2019
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (b. 1945)
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Birrkamirri 11, 2011, paint pen on clear acetate plastic Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Shapiro Auctioneers
Feb. 26, 2019
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (b. 1945)
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Birrkamirri 9, 2011, paint pen on clear acetate plastic Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Shapiro Auctioneers
Nov. 29, 2017
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, FALLEN LEAVES II, 2009, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, FALLEN LEAVES II, 2009, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark SIGNED: bears inscription verso: artist’s name and Buku Larrngay cat. 0709Y/R DIMENSIONS: 40.5 x 88.5 cm PROVENANCE: Buku Larrngay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala (label attached verso, cat. 3576V) Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney EXHIBITED: In Sydney Again, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 9 September – 9 October 2010, cat. 12
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 29, 2017
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, CAMPING IN THE ORCHARD, 2009, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, CAMPING IN THE ORCHARD, 2009, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark SIGNED: bears inscription verso: artist’s name, Buku Larrngay cat. 3513Y and cat. 0209YIR DIMENSIONS: 62.5 x 155.5 cm PROVENANCE: Buku Larrngay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney EXHIBITED: In Sydney Again, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 9 September – 9 October 2010, cat. 8
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 29, 2017
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, TREES WHITE, 2011, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, TREES WHITE, 2011, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark SIGNED: bears inscription on label verso: artist's name, title and Buku Larrngay cat. 4078V DIMENSIONS: 96.0 x 82.0 cm PROVENANCE: Buku Larrngay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney EXHIBITED: Birrka, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 6 – 29 October 2011, cat. 11
Deutscher and Hackett
May. 25, 2016
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, YOLNGUYULNGU AND DJORRA, 2014, four works on paper
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINGU, born c.1945, YOLNGUYULNGU AND DJORRA, 2014, four works on paper: felt tip pen and earth pigments on discarded photography paper DIMENSIONS: each: 75.5 x 56.0 cm PROVENANCE: Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts, Yirrkala, Northern Territory (cats. TPA080, TPA128, TPA115, TPA109) The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane This work is accompanied by a certificate from Buku-Larrngay Mulka Arts which states: Nyapanyapas 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.
Deutscher and Hackett
Aug. 16, 2014
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Dhambilingu Ga Wayin
Est: $100 - $200
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Dhambilingu Ga Wayin Screenprint number 10/30. 50 x 68 cm. Numbered in pencil lower left, signed lower right.
Barsby Auctions
Jul. 19, 2014
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Dhambilingu Ga Wayin
Est: $150 - $300
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Dhambilingu Ga Wayin Screenprint number 10/30. 50 x 68 cm. Numbered in pencil lower left, signed lower right.
Barsby Auctions
Jun. 21, 2014
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Dhambilingu Ga Wayin
Est: $200 - $400
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Dhambilingu Ga Wayin Screenprint number 10/30. 50 x 68 cm. Numbered in pencil lower left, signed lower right.
Barsby Auctions