Tingari Cycle, 1983

153 x 192 cm

Est. $9,000 – $15,000

Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists, NT, Cat No. FW830621 Corbally Stourton Contemporary Art Ltd., London, Cat No. CSCA117 Private Collection, Albany NY
Artwork story: This work is emblematic of Papunya men’s paintings during the mid 1980s with its concentric roundels linked by connecting lines that chart the journey paths of the Tingari ancestors, whose travels across the desert created sacred sites and established ritual law. The restrained, optical rhythm of repeated circles and geometric infill speaks to the mnemonic function of such paintings, which encode extended song cycles and ancestral histories. The scale and precision of this composition place it firmly among Freddy West’s most resolved works of the period. Its tightly controlled execution and depth of symbolic resonance exemplify the authority of an elder artist working within one of the most important pictorial traditions of the 20th century.

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Sale 2 · Lot 10

Freddy West Tjakamarra

c.1932 – 1994

153 x 192 cm

Est. $9,000 – $15,000

Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists, NT, Cat No. FW830621 Corbally Stourton Contemporary Art Ltd., London, Cat No. CSCA117 Private Collection, Albany NY
Artwork story: This work is emblematic of Papunya men’s paintings during the mid 1980s with its concentric roundels linked by connecting lines that chart the journey paths of the Tingari ancestors, whose travels across the desert created sacred sites and established ritual law. The restrained, optical rhythm of repeated circles and geometric infill speaks to the mnemonic function of such paintings, which encode extended song cycles and ancestral histories. The scale and precision of this composition place it firmly among Freddy West’s most resolved works of the period. Its tightly controlled execution and depth of symbolic resonance exemplify the authority of an elder artist working within one of the most important pictorial traditions of the 20th century.