Lot 64: DONKEYMAN LEE TJUPURRULA , 1925 - 1993 NATIVE CAT DREAMING Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Bears artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 63/89 on the reverse Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

159 by 79 cm

Dreamtime Gallery, Brisbane 1989
Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, Bond University Campus Gallery, Queensland, 18 - 31 October 1990

Cowan, J., Wirrimanu: Aborginal Art from the Balho Hills, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994, illus. pp. 114-115, pl. 48

Painted at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills) for Warlayirti Artists in 1989
Dreamtime Gallery, Brisbane
The Sam Barry Collection

This painting is sold with an accompanying certificate from Warlayirti Artists that reads in part: 'Tingarri (Native Cat) Dreaming and Law site. Young boys are brought here by the men to be initiated ... The lines and circles are specific paths and sites used in the rituals of the ceremony (Turuku). The circle and line design is also used as a body painting design during the ceremonies... and the boomerangs are left behind to become sandhills after the ceremony.'