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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 #:
  22
• Lot Description:
  Dickie Minyintiri
  (Born Circa 1915)
  Kapi Tjukula (Waterholes) (2009)
  synthetic polymer paint on linen
  122 x 122 cm
  bears Ernabella Arts cat. no. DM1711-09 verso
• Provenance:
  Ernabella Arts, South Australia; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; The Alan Boxer Collection, Canberra
• Notes:
  This painting is sold with an Ernabella Arts certificate which reads: "When Dickie paints this Tjukupa (that he refers to as Kapi Tjukula, or Waterhole), he is painting about when he was a young child still living a nomadic existence with his family, and each of the tjukula (circles) of the paint is a camp at a plentiful water supply. He was born in the Western APY Lands, and with his family, journeyed east, and camped for many years in the foothills of the Musgrave Ranges around Ernabella where water was plentiful. He was living here when the missionaries came in on camels to try and find a suitable place to set up a mission for Pitjantjatjara Yankanytjatjara people. He is one of the few living Anangu that remember first contact. Dickie continues to refer to the great significance of water places and how Anangu spend time at a tukula and once it has dried up, travel to another."
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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