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  important aboriginal art auction • melbourne • 25 march 2009

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 NAATA NUNGURRAYI
Marrapinti, 2002
born 1932
synthetic polymer paint on linen
168.0 x 46.0 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Papunya
Tula Artists Pty Ltd catalogue number NN0212071

ESTIMATE: $4,000 – 6,000

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs
Private collection, Melbourne

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice
Springs which reads in part, 'This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and soakage
water site of Marrapinti, to the west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia... A group of senior women camped at this rockhole making the nose-bones which
are worn through a hole in the nose-web...'



 
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