Harry Tjutjuna
(born 1930)
Mututa Tjurkurpa (Bilby woman), 2010
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
131.0 x 80.0 cm
bears inscription verso: artist’s name, size and Niniku Arts cat. 10106
Estimate:
$2,000 - $3,000
Sold:
$1,473 (inc. BP)
© Harry Tjutjuna/Copyright Agency 2023
lot details
Niniku Arts, Pipalyatjara, South Australia
Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
Estate of the late Annie McFarling, Melbourne, acquired from the above in August 2010
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Ninuku Arts which states:
‘That minyma ninu (bilby woman) and her family were eating all the maku (witchetty grubs). There are a lot of different maku, tjilka-tjilka, punti, ngarkalya and kanturangu. She ate so much that there were only ngingirpa left (little immature ones). The wati mututa (ant men) got really angry and they chased the bilby family, husband, wife and kids and speared them. They came marching all together.’
Notes: D+H ONLINE is pleased to feature works by Indigenous artists from The Estate of Mrs Annie McFarling.
Annie McFarling was an enthusiastic and eclectic collector. A regular visitor to major commercial galleries such as Alcaston Gallery, Vivien Anderson Gallery and William Mora galleries in Melbourne together with Aboriginal and Pacific Art and Grant Pirrie in Sydney where she informed her appreciation of contemporary Indigenous art and acquired works by artists of renown, a selection of which we are offering here including paintings by Sally Gabori, Jan Billycan and Carmel Yukenbarri.
Condition: This work is in excellent, stable and original condition.

