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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Peter Elliott Collection
• Sale Date:
  30 Aug 2015 ~ 6pm - Part 1 (Lots 1 - 193)
  31 Aug 2015 ~ 11am - Part 2 (Lots 194 - 340)
  31 Aug 2015 ~ 2pm - Part 3 (Lots 341 - 511)
  01 Sep 2015 ~ 10.30am - Part 4 (Lots 512 - 754) and 2pm - Part 5 (Lots 755 - 1013)
• Lot #:
  207
• Lot Description:
  Nyula Mutji Nungurrayi
  (1945-1993)
  Artist’s Country (Mutjul) (1993)
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  119 x 59 cm
  bears Warlayirti Artists cat. no. 141/93 verso
• Provenance:
  Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation, Western Australia; Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney; This painting is sold with a Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation certificate.
• Exhibited:
  Wirrimanu: The Art of Balgo Hills, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, 1993, cat. no. 18; Up Close and Personal: Works from the Collection of Dr Peter Elliott AM, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, August-September 2011
• Notes:
  Nyula Mutji Nungurrayi was the daughter of Eubena Nampitjin and her first husband, Purungu Tjakata Tjapaltjarri, known as Gimme, a Wangkatjungka man. Eubena was a young teenager when they were married. In the 1940s, Gimme and Eubena, with their first three daughters, Ena, Nyula and Mel, worked for the cattlemen droving herds along the Canning Stock Route, between their home at Kunawarritji (Well 33) and the railhead to the south at Wiluna. The journey covered some 2000 kilometers and the family was paid in flour, tea and biscuits. The family then followed a herd northwards to Billiluna Station where Gimme was a stockman and Eubena did household chores. In 1955 Gimme, Eubena and the family moved to the old Catholic Pallottine mission at Balgo that had been established on the Station in 1942 (Williamson, S., S. Togni, J. Gimme and J. Ryan, Eubena Nampitjin: Art and Life, Balgo: Warlayirti Artists, 2005, pp.13-14). Nyula Mutji’s father died around 1979 and Eubena then married Wimmitji Tjapangati who had moved to Balgo in 1959. Nyula’s paintings were heavily influenced by those of her mother and step-father, who were recognized as among the most accomplished artists at Baglo. Artist’s country (Mutjul), 1993, painted in the last year of the artist’s life that was tragically cut short by meningitis, bears comparison with Wimmitji’s Artist’s country (Wantjanmurra), painted a year earlier, Lot 208 in this auction, and with her mother’s contemporaneous paintings such as Tjitji Kutjarra, 1993, and Yalpurru, 1992, illustrated in Williamson 2005, p. 51, plate 27, and p.59, plate 35 respectively. These works feature similar application of paint, loose journey and site grids (roundels joined by straight lines) struck on the diagonal, and an emphasis on the use of the traditional palette rendered in acrylic. Artist’s country (Mutjul), 1993, depicts a sacred site–formed by a diamond in the lower section of the painting-–where there are holes in rocks for ‘sacred talk’ . However the artists specifically requested the documenter of her painting from Warlayirti Artists not to reveal the exact site. Wally Caruana
• Estimate:
  A$7,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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