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Lot 163

Ningura Napurrula
(born circa 1938)
Untitled (Rockhole Site of Wirrulnga), 2005

24 March 2013, 14:00 AEDT
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art

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Ningura Napurrula (born circa 1938)

Untitled (Rockhole Site of Wirrulnga), 2005
bears artist's name, dimensions and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number NN0505213 on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
153 x 122cm (60 1/4 x 48 1/16in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Painted at Kintore, Northern Territory
Purchased from Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory in October 2005
The Laverty Collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED:
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts,Washington DC, USA., 30 June - 24 September 2006; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA., 7 October - 10 December 2006, cat. no. 34
Paintings from Remote Communities: Indigenous Australian Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, 15 December 2007 - 24 February 2008; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, 5 July - 31 August 2008

LITERATURE:
Britta Konau et al., Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, exh. cat., London: Scala Publishers, 2006, cat. no. 34, p.75 (illus.), p.153
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2008, p.72 (illus.)
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Edition II, Melbourne: Kleimeyer Industries, 2011, p.54 (illus.)

This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate.

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