Lot 80: DONKEYMAN LEE TJUPURRULA 1925-1993 WALA WALA 1989 118 by 178 cm Synthetic polymer paint on canvas Bears artist's name 'Donkeyman Lee' size and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 556/89 together with exhibition label on the reverse Provenance:

DONKEYMAN LEE TJUPURRULA 1925-1993 WALA WALA 1989 118 by 178 cm Synthetic polymer paint on canvas Bears artist's name 'Donkeyman Lee' size and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 556/89 together with exhibition label on the reverse Provenance: Painted in 1989 at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), for Warlayirti Artists Dreamtime Gallery, Brisbane The Sam Barry Collection Exhibited: Dreamtime Gallery, Brisbane 1989 of the Western Desert, Bond University University Campus Gallery, Queensland, 18-31 October 1990, exhibition label on the reverse Dreamtime: Zeitgenossische Aboriginal Art/The Darkness and the Light, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, 18 May 2001 - 30 September 2001 Literature: Eather, M., Dreamtime: Zeitgenossische Aboriginal Art/The Darkness and the Light, Edition Sammlung Essl, Vienna, 2001, illus. p.68 Cf. Tingari Dreaming at Walla Walla, 1989, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, illustrated in Ryan, J. and K. Akerman, Images of Power: of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p.97. This painting is sold with an accompanying certificate from Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills that reads in part: 'Artist's Country. This painting shows the features and the Dreaming stories for this man's country. "Kaninyarra" and "Wilkin" were two Tingari Men travelling around the place in the Dreamtime and here they have the forms of snakes. One of them died here and is still at this spot. The two eagles are eating kangaroo and their activities are now seen in the Wala Wala Hills. The wallaby camped here at "Putjangka" and this is seen today in some claypans. The artist lived here prior to white contact.'