WARLIMPIRRNG TJAPALTJARRI 120 cm x 200cm TINGARI CYCLE Highly Collectible

Painting is accompanied by 34 works in progress photographs and 1 photo of Warlimpirrnga holding and signing his painting. Painting also comes with COA. Warlinpirrnga Tjapaltjarri was born in the late 1950s. Hunter-gatherers who lived a traditional nomadic way of life on the western side of the lake, and had never come into contact with Euro-Australian society.

Tjapaltjarri's father died when he was a young boy, and his mother remarried shortly after. Tjapaltjarri himself married his cousin, Yalti. He served the family's main provider of food. In 1984, when Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri was about 25, he finally came into contact people from outside his family. Upon seeing a white man for the first time, Warlimpirrnga remembers, I couldn't believe it.

I thought he was a devil, a bad spirit. He was the colour of clouds at sunrise. A few days later, he and his family were settled at Kiwirrkurra. News of this group living nomadically so far into the modern world made headlines internationally. Warlimpirrnga started painting in 1987, working with Papunya Tula.

Initially practising under the tutelage of other artists at the company, he finished his first painting for them in April 1987. His first public exhibition was in Melbourne. It showed eleven of his paintings, all of which were bought for the National Gallery of Victoria. He has since become one of central Australia's most well-known artists. Paints abstract images of sacred stories and songs from his family's. The stories focus around the.

The ancestors of the Pintupi, spirit beings who are believed to have. His stories are about his country and. Such as Marruwa and Kanapilya. His work is held in several major public collections across Australia, such as in the National Gallery in Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the National Gallery of Victoria.

He also has work in galleries overseas, such as the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, and the Kluge -RuheAboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia. In 2012, his work was shown as part of the documenta.

The item "WARLIMPIRRNG TJAPALTJARRI 120 cm x 200cm TINGARI CYCLE Highly Collectible" is in sale since Thursday, November 28, 2019. This item is in the category "Art\Aboriginal\Paintings". The seller is "coffey8215" and is located in Alice Springs, NT. This item can be shipped worldwide.

Size: Large (up to 60in.

)
Region of Origin: Australia
Artist: Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri
Colour: Multi-Color
Style: Desert Art
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Medium: Acrylic
Date of Creation: 2019
Framing: Unframed
Year: 2019
Features: Signed
Width (Inches): 200cm
Subject: TINGARI CYCLE
Originality: Original
Aboriginal Art Region: Western Desert
Height (Inches): 120cm