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Tjungurrayi, Willie. c1932-. Australia (Aboriginal)
| Title | Price | Details |
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| Pulpayella | $51,850 | Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, bears Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number WJ. 761258 on the reverse, 164.5 x 48.5 cm, Est: $30,000-40,000, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 09/07/2001, Lot No. 71 |
| Provenance: Painted for Papunya Tula Artists at Warra Wea in December 1976. Papunya Tula Artists Alice Springs. Private collection Melbourne. This painting is sold with an accompanying certificate from Papunya Tula Artists that reads: The site depicted on this canvas is PULPA or more fully PULPAYELLA far to the west of Alice Springs approaching the old long disused Canning Stock Route over the W. A. border. The mythological rites and re-enactment are so secret-sacred that no details can be given about this place. All that is known is that large groups of men gathered (concentric circles) in the mythological time. These men were a group of Tingari men. It is known that the Tingari men travelled the country establishing the song-cycles ritual procedures and ceremonies that are still known as Tingari. No details can be given of the ceremonies themselves because of the secret-sacred nature of these details. The Tingari cycles are virtually universal throughout the Western Desert peoples but appear to be celebrated by several very extensive mthological lines of travel rather than just one vast linked route. This Painting may be the first recorded work executed on canvas by this artist | ||