Makinti Napanangka Pintupi, Western Desert region, circa 1930-2011
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Kintore, Northern Territory, 2001
Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory, cat. no. MN0103144
Private Collection, Northern Territory
D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York
Exhibitions
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. May 3 – July 3 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. 19 (illus.)
Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, 2023 (illus.)
This painting depicts designs associated with the travels of the Kungka Kutjarra (Two Women) to a site on the south side of Lake MacDonald. The two women were digging for the small animal Kuningka (Western Quoll). These animals usually live in burrows which were dug by other animals such as the Burrowing Bettong or Rabbits and occasionally in hollow logs. The lines through the painting represent spun hair which is used to make hair-string skirts worn during ceremonies. The women later continued their travels to the east. (Text from Papunya Tula Artists)