Lot 131: HELICOPTER TJUNGURRAYI (B.c. 1947)

MANAGARRA SOAK, NEAR JUPITER WELL, WA with Warlayirti artists number '422/97' and stamped with Gallery Gandwana number '992303' (on the reverse) synthetic polymer paint on canvas 90 x 60 cm Painted in 1997 This painting is to be sold with an accompanying certificate of authenticity from Gallery Gondwana, Northern Territory PROVENANCE Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills Gallery Gondwana, Northern Territory Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997 NOTES This country belongs to the artist. He had depicted a central soak, showing where the water that supplies the surrounding country lies. The small black circles depict bush apples which grow on a small tree. They follow two creek lines which run through a landscape which Helicopter describes a sandhill country.