Aboriginal Art
Aboriginal Art
Property from the Estate of David Larwill
George Tjungurrayi
MAMULTJULKULUNGA, 1998
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December 4, 11:27 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of David Larwill
George Tjungurrayi
born circa 1947
MAMULTJULKULUNGA, 1998
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Bears the artist's name, dimensions and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number GT980252 on reverse, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi label fixed to the stretcher
72 in by 59 7/8 in (183 cm by 152 cm)
Painted at Kintore in 1998 for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Estate of David Larwill
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Estate of David Larwill
George Tjungurrayi began to develop his distinctive minimalist linier style around 1996 and in 1998 held his first major solo exhibition of these much revered paintings at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne. The gallery was hung with around a dozen large scale works, each of a different palette and the exhibition was the talk of the Melbourne contemporary art scene. The fields of narrow lines, which 'warp' towards the opposite edges of the canvas, relate to designs engraved on shields in the Western Desert, as well as to a conceptualization of the physical appearance of the country around Lake Mackay, with its parallel ridges of sand dunes.