Lot 109: OLD MICK WALLANKARRI TJAKAMARRA , WOMEN'S STORY AT YALUKURU 1974

Synthetic polymer paint on composition board

43 by 57 cm

Painted at Papunya in February 1974
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2 October 1994, lot 99
Private collection, Melbourne

Cf. For a stylistically similar painting see Honey Ant Dreaming, 1973, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, in Maughan, J. and J. Zimmer (eds.), Dot and Circle: A retrospective survey of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of Central Australia, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1986, p.72, plate 9, illus; see also Woman?s Dreaming at Narwietooma, 1971, in Bardon, G. and J. Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p.365, painting 314, illus

This painting is sold with its original Papunya Tula Artists cataloguing card with an annotated diagram and descriptive notations that read in part: 'This is a women's place. They hold their separate corroboree here with dancing and drawing in the sand. The varied background shows bush tuckers - wild tomato, a grass whose seed is made into damper and others.'

The annotated diagram identifies the site as Yalukuru in the Ilpili area (possibly further west).