Lot 79: DONKEYMAN LEE TJUPURRULA 1925-1993 NATIVE CAT DREAMING 1989 159 by 79 cm Synthetic polymer paint on canvas Bears artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 63/89 on the reverse Provenance: Painted at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills) in 1989

DONKEYMAN LEE TJUPURRULA 1925-1993 NATIVE CAT DREAMING 1989 159 by 79 cm Synthetic polymer paint on canvas Bears artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 63/89 on the reverse Provenance: Painted at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills) in 1989 for Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia Dreamtime Gallery, Brisbane The Sam Barry Collection Exhibited: Dreamtime Gallery, Brisbane 1989 of the Western Desert, Bond University Campus Gallery, Queensland, 18-31 October 1990 Literature: Cowan, J., Wirrimanu: from the Balgo Hills, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994, illus. pp.114-115, plate 48 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.'