Makinti Napanangka Pintupi, Western Desert region, circa 1930-2011
Untitled - Lupulnga, 2008
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
60 x 72 inches (152.4 x 182.9 cm)
Photo: Courtesy of D’Lan Contemporary
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Kintore, Northern Territory, 2008
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, cat. no. MN0806084
Private Collection, Northern Territory, acquired from the above
D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York
Exhibitions
Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 31 July 2010 - 3 January 2011
18th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, 27 June –16 September 2012
On long-term loan to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013 - 2025
Frieze Masters, London, Presented by D'Lan Contemporary, 15 October 2025 – 19 October 2025
Publications
Vanessa Merlino and Isabella Wadley, Makinti Napanangka x Naata Nungurrayi, Frieze Masters 2025, p. 22-23 (illus.)
"Born at Lupulnga in the early 1920s, south of where the Walungurru community now
stands, Makinti Napanangka spent her formative years living nomadically in Country
south of the giant salt lake of Kaakurutintjinya (Lake Macdonald). In the company of her
extended family group, she walked into the Haasts Bluff ration depot in the early 1940s,
where she lived for several years before moving to Papunya, and later Walungurru, in the
early 1980s." (Vanessa Merlino and Isabella Wadley, Makinti Napanangka x Naata Nungurrayi, Frieze Masters 2025, p. 11)
Related artworks
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Makinti Napanangka, Untitled - Lupulnga, 2002 -
Makinti Napanangka, Two Women, 2000
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Makinti Napanangka, Kungka Kutjarra (Two Women), 2001
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Makinti Napanangka, Untitled, 1998
