| Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald) 2000 | $26,400 | Synthetic polymer paint on linen, bears artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number WT0007005 on the reverse, 122 x 153 cm, Est: $22,000-28,000, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 31/07/2006, Lot No. 118 |
| Provenance: Painted at Kintore in July 2,000. Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs. Private collection, Sydney. Cf. For related large scale paintings see Tingari Story, 1986, by Willy Tjungurrayi (assisted by Simon Tjakamarra and John Tjakamarra), and Untitled, 1999, a collaborative work by male artists living at Kintore, including Willy Tjungurrayi, in Perkins, H. and H. Fink (eds), Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with Papunya Tula Artists, Sydney, 2000, illus. pp. 96-97 and p. 160 respectively. See also Tingari Dreaming, 1996, by George Tjungurrayi in Perkins and Fink, 2000, illus. pp. 120-21. Willy Tjungurrayi started painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1976. Perkins and Fink (2000, p. 181) state the Willy and his elder brother Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi (c. 1928-1998) 'were among the most outstanding advocates of the characteristic early 1980s Pintupi style' which comprised linked concentric circles to the exclusion of other iconographic images found in the paintings of other desert groups. '(T)his sacred geometry contains simultaneous references relating to ceremonial body paint designs, the cartography of country and particular narratives of the Tingari ancestors' (ibid. p. 180). These paintings were precursors to the style developed by Willy and George Tjungurrayi (born c. 1945) and others in the 1990s which feature swathes of lines, which over such vast canvases, create a visually stimulating field. This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate that reads in part; 'This painting depicts designs associated with the site of Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald). In mythological times a large group of Tingari men, both young and old, travelled to this site from Kulkuta further to the west. A fierce hail-storm occurred which killed them all |
