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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Timed Online Auction | Art | Australian, Aboriginal & International
• Sale Date:
  28 Nov 2022 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  6153
• Lot Description:
  Warlimpirringa Tjapaltjarri
  (Kiwirrkurra, c.1950)
  Tingari, Wilinkara Lake Mackay 2001
  Acrylic on Linen
  Stretched: 158 x 122 cm
  Inscribed, titled & dated verso; Catalogue no. 001AB
• Notes:
  Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri was the son of Papalya Nangala and Waku Tjungurrayi, an old man who had three wives (Papalya and two of her sisters). They lived out in the desert, avoiding any contact with Westerners. He grew up following the traditional lifestyle of the Western Desert people in the country west of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). After his father's death, when Warlimpirnnga was about five years old, Waku's place as senior man of the group was taken by Lanti Tjapanangka, who married Waku's widows and continued to enforce the group's isolation. A few years after Lanti died, the twice-widowed sisters sent off Warlimpirrnga (now in his mid 20s) and his older half-brother Piyirti to search for their long-lost relatives. In October 1984, the brothers encountered Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka and his son Matthew trying to fix a flat tyre at their Mt Webb outstation, just outside of the newly established Pintupi homelands community of Kiwirrkurra. The subsequent arrival of the family group of nine in Kiwirrkurra made national headlines. They became known as the 'Pintupi Nine' or 'The Lost Tribe'. Up to this point, Warlimpirrnga had had no contact with Europeans and their way of living.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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