Lot 10
Tarpu & Wayampajarti
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
inscribed verso with artist's name and Mangkaja Arts cat. no. 387/07
120 x 90.5cm
Estimate $7,000 - $9,000
Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency, Western Australia (accompanied by a certificate of authenticity)
Private collection, Melbourne
"These ones (waterholes) all surrounded by salt country (planes), like warla (marsh or large claypans). It's real flat country with saltbush. Tarpu is important for that big law ceremony. Big mob of people were killed here back in the Jumangkarni (dreamtime), when a big star crashed down from the sky. Tarpu is the top waterhole, the bottom ones are Wayampajarti the one on the left is good for drinking that one on the right he no good. That no good one is a strong place for law, only for initiated men this one.", The Artist
As stated on the Mangkaja Arts certificate of authenticity
© Mawukura Jimmy Nerrimah/Copyright Agency, 2023
Indigenous Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8694
6:00pm - 28 August 2023
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141
VIEWING
Friday 25 - Sunday 27 August, 10am - 4pm
333 Malvern Road, South Yarra VIC
CONTACT
Lucy Foster
lucy.foster@leonardjoel.com.au
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