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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Alan Boxer Collection of Australian Indigenous Art
• Sale Date:
  17 Mar 2015 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  12
• Lot Description:
  Charlie Wartuma (Tarawa) (Tjungurrayi)
  (Circa 1921–1999)
  Untitled (Dreaming at Tjitarulnga) (1990)
  synthetic polymer paint on linen
  90 x 30 cm
  bears Papunya Tula Artists cat. no. CT901054 verso
• Provenance:
  Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; The Alan Boxer Collection, Canberra
• Exhibited:
  Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, August - November 2000
• References:
  Perkins, H. and H. Fink (eds), Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with Papunya Tula Artists, 2000, p.104, illustrated.
• Notes:
  This painting is sold with a Papunya Tula Artists certificate. Untitled, 1990, was borrowed from Alan Boxer by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the seminal exhibition, Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius that was the Gallery’s contribution to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival, from August 18 to November 12. Curated by Hetti Perkins, the exhibition was a landmark in a number of ways: in the history of the revolutionary developments of Papunya art and of Australian art museums’ record of exhibiting Indigenous Australian art. Moreover, the exhibition firmly established contemporary Aboriginal art from the desert within Australian fine art circles, and given the context, internationally as well. The exhibition was accompanied by a substantial catalogue that continues to be a major reference on the history of the development of the Papunya Tula art movement. The exhibition featured some 150 paintings by fifty artists, including many of the early works on board; the first, modestly scaled canvases; through to the monumental canvases of the late 1980s and 1990s. The major artists through each phase of Papunya Tula’s development were represented, including the first ‘painting men’, among whom Pintupi artists predominate; painters such as Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Uta Uta Tjangala and Charlie Tarawa Tjungurrayi. The exhibition covered the development in styles of painting and imagery of the first three decades of the movement. Significantly, the it also proclaimed contemporary art from the desert executed in introduced materials to be intrinsic to the repertoire of desert artists and not some form of transitional art that had lost its cultural integrity. The exhibition met with much critical acclaim with critics and art writers describing it as magnificent and groundbreaking. Writing the Australian National University’s Humanities Research journal, Special Issue: Indigenous Knowledge, in 2000, the art historian and academic Roger Benjamin described the exhibition as ‘…full of riches, even for initiates of Papunya art.’ Wally Caruana (press.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/whole7.pdf, page 97)
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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