Lot 101

This work is in very good condition with no major faults. Stretched with no additional framing. (LEONARD JOEL DELIVERY SIZE LARGE)


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Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, Yuendumu, Northern Territory
Private collection, Melbourne

Editions Gallery, Fremantle 1986
Blaxland Gallery, Sydney 1987
Dreamings; Art from Aboriginal Australia, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, August 1988 - May 1990 (on loan)

Sutton, P., Dreamings, The Art of Aboriginal Australia, Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Sydney, 1988, p. 223 (illustrated) (accompanied by a copy of this book)

Featured in a touring exhibition by the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, this work travelled to the Asia Society Galleries in New York, The David Alfred Smart Gallery at the University of Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Natural History and then returning to Australia in September 1989 to be exhibited at the Museum of Victoria and the South Australia Museum in 1990.

The Ngalaji is a tuber that resembles a small potato. In this painting women are shown digging for Ngalaji. Represented by concentric circles, with its roots as the lines linking the circles. This Dreaming belongs to Nungarrayi and Napaljarri women's skins whose brothers and fathers own a similar variation of the story.