Man's Story, c.1972

30 x 55 cm

Est. $40,000 – $60,000

Hammer $60,000

Provenance: Stuart Art Centre, NT, Cat No. 12046 Post-modern Primitive, New York, David Betz (Director) Private Collection, Albany NY A copy of Geoffrey Bardon's field note and drawing of this painting reproduced in "Papunya A Place Made After Story The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement" Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon. The Miegunyah Press Carlton Victoria Australia 2004 Page 190.
Artwork story: According to Geoffrey Bardon’s field note, in this ‘commanding’ early Pintupi Water Dreaming, undulating water marks frame a set of radiating ceremonial bullroarers and enclose waterholes, ceremonial headpieces, and men’s ceremonial ground designs. The composition radiates around a central axis, balancing symmetry with the subtle irregularities of hand-painted form. With its restricted palette of black, white, and earth tones, the board exemplifies the pared-back graphic intensity of the first years at Papunya, when ritual knowledge was being carefully translated into new pictorial form.

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Sale 2 · Lot 4

c.1938 – 1992

30 x 55 cm

Est. $40,000 – $60,000

Hammer $60,000

Provenance: Stuart Art Centre, NT, Cat No. 12046 Post-modern Primitive, New York, David Betz (Director) Private Collection, Albany NY A copy of Geoffrey Bardon's field note and drawing of this painting reproduced in "Papunya A Place Made After Story The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement" Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon. The Miegunyah Press Carlton Victoria Australia 2004 Page 190.
Artwork story: According to Geoffrey Bardon’s field note, in this ‘commanding’ early Pintupi Water Dreaming, undulating water marks frame a set of radiating ceremonial bullroarers and enclose waterholes, ceremonial headpieces, and men’s ceremonial ground designs. The composition radiates around a central axis, balancing symmetry with the subtle irregularities of hand-painted form. With its restricted palette of black, white, and earth tones, the board exemplifies the pared-back graphic intensity of the first years at Papunya, when ritual knowledge was being carefully translated into new pictorial form.