Lot 49: YUKULTJI NAPANGATI, born 1970, YUNALA, 2005, synthetic polymer paint on linen

YUKULTJI NAPANGATI, born 1970, YUNALA, 2005, synthetic polymer paint on linen

SIGNED:
bears inscription verso: artist’s name, size and Papunya Tula Artists cat. YN0507057

DIMENSIONS:
91.0 x 122.0 cm

PROVENANCE:
Painted at Kiwirrkura in 2005
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
The Luczo Family Collection, USA

RELATED WORK:
Untitled, 2005, in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, illus. in Perkins, H., Art and Soul: A Journey into Aboriginal Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2010, p. 75

ESSAY:
This painting is accompanied by a certificate from Papunya Tula Artists that states: ‘This painting depicts designs associated with Yunala, a rockhole and soakage water site situated among sandhills just to the west of the Kiwirrkura community in Western Australia.

A group of ancestral women camped at Yunala after approaching the site from further west. At Yunala the women gathered the edible roots of the bush banana vine Marsdeniaaustralis, also known in Pintupi as yunala, before continuing their journey north-east to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). The rows of parallel lines are the sandhills surrounding the rockhole at the site.’