Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri Pintupi language group, circa 1950
Untitled, 2015
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
96.06 x 72.05 inches (244 x 183 cm)
© The Estate of the Artist, by permission of Papunya Tula Artists through the Aboriginal Artists Agency.
Image Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Kiwirrkura, Western Australia, 2015
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, cat. no. WT1502070
Salon 94, New York, cat. no. WTJ11
Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York
Exhibitions
Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri: Maparntjarra, Salon 94, New York, 9 September - 25 October, 2015
Twenty Aboriginal Paintings, UOVO Art, New York, 15 - 19 January 2019
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO Art, New York, May 2023
Literature
Steve Martin, Twenty Aboriginal Paintings, UOVO Art, 2019, p. 9 (illus.)
Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, 2023 (illus.)
“Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri lived a nomadic existence untouched by European contact until 1984, when he and eight other family members walked in from the Gibson Desert to the remote community of Kiwirrkurra in Western Australia. With the art movement in this region having begun over ten years prior, Warlimpirrnga entered into this stream of artists with a great measure of reverence and respect. Almost immediately, his paintings had the resolve and strength of the veteran and most senior Papunya Tula artists. His depiction of the sites and narratives of his homelands around Lake Mackay, a vast salt lake, draws from the ancestral realm and the power of these places.” (Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, 2023, p. 22)
Related artworks
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Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Untitled, 2017 -
Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Maruwa, 2013
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Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Swamp with Rockhole Water Site of Marawa, 2004
