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GEORGE TJUNGURRAYI (born circa 1943)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
122 x 122 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with Maruwanya, a claypan with soakage
water, north-west of Lake Mackay.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 1997,
Certificate number GT971196
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
‘Aboriginal Art 1999’, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne, 1999, Catalogue number 2
‘George Tjungurrayi’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 1998, Catalogue number 8

George was born in the desert in the vacinity of Kiwirrkura circa 1943 and is the
younger brother of Naata Nungurrayi. George walked into Papunya with another
young man along a freshly graded road, after living at Mukula west of Kiwirrkura.
He commenced painting for Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1980’s.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Robert Holmes à Court Collection
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
University of Virginia, USA
Musee des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie, Paris