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Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Bush Tucker After Rain , 1971

Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula Indigenous Australian (Pintupi/Warlpiri), 1925-2001

Bush Tucker After Rain , 1971
Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
61 x 45.7 cm
24 x 18.5 inch
Notations on the imagery written on the back by mr. Geoffrey Bardon.
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Warangkula was one of the senior custodians of the major Rain Dreaming sites at Tjikarri and Kalipinypa in the desert bordering on Western Australia. This early work,, one of a...
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Warangkula was one of the senior custodians of the major Rain Dreaming sites at Tjikarri and Kalipinypa in the desert bordering on Western Australia. This early work,, one of a number devoted to the subject by the artist, shows the rain as meandering lines through the middle of painting, weaving between water soakage sites represented by the sets of concentric circles. The interlocking meanders to either side represent lightning. Warankula's characteristic stippled application of paint produces a vibrant image reflecting the fecund nature of the landscape after rain: the patches of dotting indicate fields on native bush floods.


Please note that all First Nations Art is created from a so called ‘Birds Eye’ view.

This means that the paintings can be hung either horizontally as well as vertically.

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Provenance

Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia

Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Australia

Private collection, Western Australia

Sotheby’s, 07-06-2011, Lot 16, Melbourne, Australia

Private collection, The Netherlands

Exhibitions

Signs and Traces. Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznan, Poland,, 2015

Literature

Signs and Traces. Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Poznań: Art | Ykwariat, 2015, p. 71 (illus.)


Bardon, G., Bardon, J., Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2004

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