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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 #:
  15
• Lot Description:
  Maggie Watson (Napangardi)
  (1921–2004)
  Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women's Dreaming) (1991)
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  91 x 91 cm
  bears Warlukurlangu Artists cat. no. 7/91 P verso
• Provenance:
  Warlukurlangu Artists, Northern Territory; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; The Alan Boxer Collection, Canberra
• Exhibited:
  Crossing Cultures: Art From the Boxer Collection, Drill Hall, Canberra, May - June 2000, cat. no. 55
• Notes:
  This painting is sold with a Warlukurlangu Artists certificate. Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa in Warlpiri literally translates to Belonging to Women Dreaming and relates to a series of ancestral sites in the region of the clay pans at Mina Mina, east of Ngayurru (Lake Mackay) on the border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory. In the creation time, digging sticks emerged from the ground in the area around Mina Mina. The sites are marked by desert oaks which are regarded by the Warlpiri as symbolic of the digging sticks. In the Jukurrpa, the ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka subsections armed themselves with these tools and proceeded to travel across the country, digging for freshwater (the circles in the painting represent waterholes) and bush foods, collecting snake vines, dancing and performing ceremonies. The central sections of parallel lines of dots depict the hair string belts they wore. As they journeyed to the east, the Women created sacred sites, among which is Janyinkiyi, the artist's country. Maggie Napangardi Watson was a member of an artistic family at Yeundumu that included her sister Judy Napangardi Watson. She commenced painting in the public domain when the artists's cooperative at Yuendumu, Warlukurlangu Artists, was established in 1985. For related paintings by the artist, now in the collection of the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, see Dussart, F., La Peinture des Aborigènes d'Australie, Marseille: Editions Parenthèses, 1993, pages 83-85. See also Kartna Jukurrpa (Women's Dreaming), 1989, in Napangardi, D. et al, Dancing Up Country: The Art of Dorothy Napangardi, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002, page 78. Wally Caruana
• Estimate:
  A$7,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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