George Tjungurrayi Pintupi language, Circa 1943-1947
Further images
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Kintore, Northern Territory, 2007
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, cat. no. GT0704103
Private Collection, Melbourne
D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York
Exhibitions
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
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
Twenty Aboriginal Paintings, UOVO, 2019, p. 6 (illus.)
Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, 2023, p. 18-19 (illus.)
This painting relates to the claypan of Kirrimalunya, north of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) and the events that occurred at this site in mythological times. This story is about two Ngangkari (Aboriginal Healers) who were camped at this site. They took something from their stomachs and wiped it on their arms. They were only boys but this healing power had been given to them by the time they were ten years old. This mythology forms part of the Tingari Creation Cycle.