Dickie Minyintiri, Wati-ku Inma Tjukurpa, 2013
© Kunmanara Minyintiri/Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society, NY, 2026
Dickie Minyintiri Pitjantjatjara, circa 1915-2014
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Pukatja, South Australia
Ernabella Arts, South Australia, cat. no. 512-12
Marshall Arts, Adelaide, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2014
Private Collection, Melbourne
D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York
Exhibitions
Minyintiri: Life in Layered Time, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, 25 March – 8 May 2021
Clever Men: Harry Tjutjuna, Dickie Minyintiri and Tiger Palpatja, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, 26 October – 6 December 2024
Literature
Merlino, Vanessa, and Diana James. Minyintiri: Life in Layered Time. D'Lan Contemporary, 2021, pp. 40–41 (illus.)
Merlino, Vanessa, and Isabella Wadley. Clever Men: Harry Tjutjuna, Dickie Minyintiri and Tiger Palpatja. D'Lan Contemporary, 2024, pp. 34–35 (illus.)
"Dickie Minyintiri proudly spoke of the Tjukurpa in his paintings. He began by naming the places in his country, his ngura walytja — places of his spirit, places created by his totemic ancestors in the custodianship of his extended family… Minyintiri knew this country intimately and sensually through the soles of his bare feet from walking hundreds of kilometres as a child and young man guided by the unerring visual spatial knowledge and mnemonic songlines taught to him by his kinsmen."
— Dr Diana James, Minyintiri: Life in Layered Time, D'Lan Contemporary, 2021