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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Painting by Walangkura Napanangka

Creator: Walangkura Napanangka
Offered by: Tishu

Description
A large abstract painting by Australian Aboriginal painter Walangkura Napanangka (1940-2014) circa 2003. Entitled "Women's Business", acrylic on canvas, inscribed on reverse.
Provenance: Robert Steele Gallery NY.
Brief biography From Australian Art Gallery artist index:
"As one of the last generation to remember a childhood lived in the desert hunting and gathering with her family, Walangkura Napanangka’s paintings recall the stories of country and the location of specific sites in her traditional homeland west of the salt lake of Karrkurutinjinya (Lake Macdonald). Born in 1946, at Tjitururrnga west of Kintore, in the remote and arid country between the Northern Territory and Western Australia, she lived with her father Rantji Tjapangati and mother Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and later, while still a teenager, travelled by foot with her family over the hundreds of kilometres from their remote desert home eventually joining Uta Uta Tjangala’s group as they walked into the settlements of Haasts Bluff and then Papunya. She passed in 2014 and her work have become significant examples of Pintupi women’s art.
Walangkura’s early works, created from 1996 onward, are characterized by masses of small markings and motifs covering large areas of canvas. Her favorite colour, a deep sandy orange predominates, accentuated against more somber blacks and reds and dusky greens or yellows. More recent works show a gestural quality though still tightly packed with an intensity of geometric line work representing sandhills. They are rich with a sense of rhythm and unimpeded movement: they show sandhills, rock holes, journeys and gatherings of ancestral women, the flow of colours in subtle shifts of light.
Walangkura’s work is highly collectable and has been widely exhibited and is included in a number of important private and public collections in both Australia and overseas."

More Information

Documentation:	Ample Provenance
Notes:	signed as well
Origin:	Australia
Period:	2000-2021
Materials:	acrylic on canvas, stretched
Condition:	Good. Stretched but framed, some wear expected from stretch edges.
Creation Date:	2003
Styles / Movements:	Outsider Art, Minimalism, Contemporary
Incollect Reference #:	507100

Dimensions

W.	65.25 in;	H.	48.75 in;	D.	1.25 in;
W.	165.74 cm;	H.	123.83 cm;	D.	3.18 cm;

Message from Seller:

Tishu, based in Atlanta, GA, offers a diverse collection ranging from Neolithic art to 20th-century collectibles, with a focus on Mid-century design, Japanese and Korean art, Asian textiles, and Contemporary Aboriginal art. Driven by a passion for timeless beauty, the gallery is open by appointment only and offers works that span 5,000 years of history. Reach them at 305-400-0561 or tishu@tishugallery.com.

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