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George Tjungurrayi Pintupi language, Circa 1943
Untitled - Kirrimalunya, 2007Synthetic polymer paint on linen96 ⅛ x 72 inches (244 x 183 cm)© Estate of the Artist I Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd.Pintupi Language Group Provenance
The Artist, painted at Kintore, Northern Territory
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
Merlino, Vanessa, and Luke Scholes. 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art. UOVO, 2023, pp. 18–19 (illus.)
Martin, Steve. Twenty Aboriginal Paintings. UOVO Art, 2019, p. 6 (illus.)
“As one of the younger of the early members of Papunya Tula Artists, George Tjungurrayi started painting in the dotted Tingari style he adopted under his seniors’ direction in 1976. The acrylic painting movement had yielded myriad possibilities for contemporary representations of Country; however, George Tjungurrayi pushed the painting technique further when, in the 1990s, he abandoned the practice of dotting altogether and developed intricate topographical maps that are reminiscent of Minimalism and Op Art. His precise, refined linework, meticulously applied in the same way as incising fine parallel lines in ceremonial woodcarving, is a stylistic innovation that remains influential in Western Desert Art.” (Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, 2023, p. 18)
Related artworks-
George Tjungurrayi, Untitled, 2008
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