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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Timed Auction | Selected Indigenous Fine Art Including Works From The Collection Of Kristin Stegley OAM
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2021 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  7
• Lot Description:
  Wintjiya Napaltjarri
  (born c.1930)
  Watanuma, 2004
  synthetic polymer paint on linen
  168.0 x 46.0 cm
  bears inscription verso: artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists cat. WN0404012
• Provenance:
  Painted at Kintore, Northern Territory in 2004; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne; Private collection, Melbourne; Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 27 March 2013, Lot 66; Private collection, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, 5 – 26 July 2006
• Notes:
  This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, which states: ‘The circles in this painting depict rockholes and soakage water sites at the claypan site of Watanuma, north-west of the Kintore community. A group of women, represented by the ‘U’ shapes, camped at this site before travelling to the rockhole site of Malparingya and continuing east to Pinari, also north-west of Kintore. While at Watanuma they made spun hair-string for making hair-string skirts which are worn during ceremonies. The lines in the work represent the hair-string. They also gathered seeds known as mungilypa or samphire from the small fleshy-shrub Tecticornia verrucose. These seeds are ground into a paste which is cooked in the coals to form a type of unleavened bread.’
• Estimate:
  A$2,500 - 3,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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