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Lot #9047 - Bambatu Napangardi

  • Auction House:
    Theodore Bruce
  • Sale Name:
    Aboriginal, Oceanic & Tribal Art
  • Sale Date:
    07 Dec 2020 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
  • Lot #:
    9047
  • Lot Description:
    Bambatu Napangardi
    (b.1940)
    My Country (East of Kiwirrkura) 2005
    Acrylic on Belgium linen, unstretched
    151 x 122 cm
    Accompanied by a photograph of the artist with this work
  • Exhibited:
    Ngintaka Aboriginal Arts, Alice Springs, 2005; Corroboree Exports, Adelaide, Catalogue no. 219111
  • Notes:
    Bambatu was born in the early 1940’s in Winron, across the Western Australia border, east of Kiwirrkurra. This country is inhabited by the Pintupi language group. Bambatu was raised as a traditional Aboriginal woman, her family hunted & gathered, living off the land. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that the extended family group relocated permanently to Papunya community. As a young woman while visiting relatives in Balgo Community in Western Australia she met her future husband, Dinni Campbell Tjampitjinpa. They were married in Balgo & had six children together, four sons & two daughters. Sadly Dinni passed away in Alice Springs in 2000. Bambatu's paintings tell the story of the journey paths travelled by her ancestors from Wirrulunga (east of Kiwirrkurra), from Kintore to Mount Liebig & the Papunya region. At each sacred location the women would stop to dance & sing the cycle of each sacred site. In her paintings the concentric circles represent waterholes & the parallel dotted lines represent the path taken. Bambatu’s line work & dotting techniques also show the body paint designs used & many traditional symbols that are often seen in Central Desert paintings.
  • Estimate:
    A$1,000 - 1,500
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Art

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