Lot 104: SHORTY LUNGKATA TJUNGURRAYI , CIRCA 1914-1987 TINGARI MEN'S DREAMING AT MITAKUJARRI Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Bears Realities Gallery label and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number SL77532 on the reverse Synthetic polymer paint on linen

158 by 125 cm

Painted at Warra Wea (Waru Wiya) in 1977
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Corporate collection

Cf. Perkins, H. and H. Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, pp.88-89 for a related work painted in the same year and Brody, A., The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings 1971-84, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1985, p.18, cat. no.8 for an earlier work with very closely related designs; for a similar work from 1975 see Walukarritji in the collection of the Flinders University Art Museum in Mellor, D. and V. Megaw (eds.), Twenty-Five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Press, Adelaide, 1999, p.33, pl.28, illus.

This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate