Lot 77: YALA YALA GIBBS TJUNGURRAYI CIRCA 1925-1998 OLD MAN'S (YINA) DREAMING

63.5 BY 32.5CM

synthetic polymer paint on composition board

Selections from the Austcorp Group Limited Collection of Aboriginal Art, New Australian Art exhibition series, The Deloitte Foundation, Sydney, series curator: Barbara Flynn, 8 October-14 December 2007

Selections from the Austcorp Group Limited Collection of Aboriginal Art, New Australian Art exhibition series, Sydney: The Deloitte Foundation, 2007

Painted at Papunya in 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs
Private collection
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 25 July, 2005, lot 151
The Austcorp Group Limited Art Collection

Cf. Untitled, c.1971-72, in the collection of the Australian Museum, Sydney, and Untitled, 1972, illustrated in Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000, p.50 and p.53 respectively; see also Sand Mosaic, 1972-73, in Geoffrey Bardon, and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2004, p.393, painting 348 (illus.).

This painting represents part of the Old Man (Yina) Dreaming frequently painted by the artist's Pintupi contemporaries Uta Uta Tjangala and Charlie Tararu Tjungurrayi. For detailed discussion of this mythology see Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June 1997, lot 17.

This painting is sold with an accompanying photocopy of the original Stuart Art Centre cataloguing sheet. The diagram indicates that the central roundels represent the Old Man and the outer roundels his testicles.