This painting depicts designs associated with the
claypan site of Pintjunga, just to the north of Desert Bore Outstation,
north-east of the Kintore Community. In mythological times a large group
of Tingari Men stopped at this site to perform ceremonies before continuing
on to Lake Mackay.
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore.
Catalogue Number RT980435
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was born in the country west of the Kintore Range in Western
Australia. His family travelled extensively across Pintupi country, then walked
into the Haasts Bluff settlement about 1956. Ronnie later went to Yuendumu,
then travelled on to Papunya, where he joined the Pintupi who were camped there
in the 1970s.
Contemporary critics have been impressed with Ronnie's large, linear, abstracted
works, which essentially 'blow up' small segments of his earlier and more detailed
paintings, into what can only be described as compellingly strong geometric
forms.(Isaacs, Jennifer, "Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal
Art", Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999)
REPRESENTED
Australian National Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Gallery of Queensland
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
Le Musée National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Robert Holmes à Court Collection
