UNTITLED, 1971

Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
26 March 2014
116

ARTIST UNKNOWN (PINTUPI)

UNTITLED, 1971

synthetic polymer powder paint and synthetic binder on composition board

13.5 x 25.5 cm

Estimate: 
$5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $5,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 34 - 26 March 2014, Melbourne
Provenance

Purchased from the Papunya Art room in 1972
The W.L. Jackson collection, Victoria
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 June 1999, lot 75
Private collection, Sydney

Catalogue text

This painting is accompanied by documentation with an annotated diagram and interpretation of the imagery prepared by Geoffrey Bardon which states: 'The grid like uniformity in this pattern represents a map journey where the concentric circles depict significant places and the linking lines imply journey or travelling in between across the landscape. The pattern is a stylised map possibly of an immense area and the simple colour methods and dotting decorative pattern date this work as an archetypal example of sand mosaic motifs, of fundamental meanings, only, to be included.'