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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Maruwa, 2013

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri Pintupi language group, circa 1950

Maruwa, 2013
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
59.8 x 72 inches (152 x 188 cm)
Photo: Courtesy of D’Lan Contemporary
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Provenance

The Artist, painted at Kiwirrkura, Western Australia,  2013

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory,  cat. no. 1202040

D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne

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

Desert Painters of Australia: Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
of the University of Virginia and the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield, Gagosian, New York, 3 May–3 July 2019

Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu: Past & Present Together: 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, 17 March 2022–26 February 2023

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, 2019, p. 8 (illus.)

Fred Myers and Henry Skerritt., Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together): Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, 2022, plate 105, p. 248-249 (illus.)

Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, 2023, p. 22 - 23 (illus.)

The designs in this painting relate to a place called Maruwa, where there is a swamp, a soakage and a rockhole. In the Dreaming, a large group of ancestral men known as the Tingarri ancestors traveled to Maruwa from the west, and after arriving there, they entered beneath the earth’s surface and continued their travels underground. Maruwa is also significant because a large ancestral snake sleeps in the swamp. —Henry Skerritt
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