Lot 18: YALA YALA GIBBS TJUNGURRAYI (CIRCA 1928-1998)

Tingari Men at Yirrirrinkinya
with Papunya Tula Artists number YY9609106 and Australian Gallery of Dreaming number 6032 (on the reverse)
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
92 x 91.3 cm
Painted in 1996

Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs
Australian Gallery of Dreaming, Melbourne
Private collection, Canberra
Private collection, Melbourne

Yirrirrinkinya is a soakage water site west of Lake MacDonald in Yala Yala's country where he spent much of his youth. This water site figures prominently in the Tingari dreamings of the artist and is an important site associated with the initiation ceremonies of the young Pintubi men.

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