Lot 45: Wimmitji Tjapangati circa 1925-2000 ARTIST'S COUNTRY synthetic polymer paint on canvas

bears artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists catalogue number 250/91 on the reverse synthetic polymer paint on canvas

100 by 76cm

Painted at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills) in 1991
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills
Private collection
Sotheby's, Fine Contemporary and Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 November 1995, lot 601
The Thompson Marecaux Collection of Balgo Paintings

Cf. For a similar example depicting the same subject see The Artist's Country, 1989, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia in Wally Caruana, Aboriginal Art, World of Art Series, London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003, p.156, pl.134, illus; and Marrangu, 1991, in the Holmes à Court Collection, Perth, in A. Brody (ed.), Stories: Eleven Aboriginal Artists, Sydney: Craftsman House, 1997, p.60, illus.

This painting is sold with an accompanying Warlayirti Artists certificate with an annotated diagram and description of the story depicted that reads: 'Artist's Country. The painting shows an area where the artist spent his early years and which is associated with Tingari activities in the Dreamtime. Tjitji Kutjarra or 2 Children are believed to have camped here and there is an area nearby for women only which is believed to have been formed by a woman's tears. "Maparn" or healing powers are contained in some rocks found here also'.