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Lot 67
  • 67

BOXER MILNER TJAMPITJIN CIRCA 1934- 2008 | Oolaign

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Oolaign
  • Bears Warlayirti Artists number 622/00 on reverse
  • Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  • 150 by 100 cm

Provenance

Painted in 2000 at Billiluna, Western Australia Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), Western Australia
Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, cat.no. AK6242
The Laverty Collection, Sydney, cat. no. 1880, acquired from the above in April 2003
Bonham’s, The Laverty Collection: Contemporary Australian Art, Sydney, 24 March 2013, lot 11
The Dennis and Debra Scholl Collection, Miami

Exhibited

Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, touring regional Spain, 1 March - 31 December 2001
New Plymouth, New Zealand, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Paintings from Remote Communities: Indigenous Australian Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, 15 December 2007 – 24 February 2008, additional venue: 
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, 5 July – 31 August 2008
Nevada, Nevada Museum of Art, No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting, 13 February to 13 May 2015, and additional venues:
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, 20 June to 16 August 2015
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, 17 September 2015 to 3 January 2016
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, 18 January to 15 May 2016
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, New York, 9 June to 14 August 2016

Literature

Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, exh. cat, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, cat. no. 21, p.32 (illus.)
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2008, p.146 (illus.)
Henry F. Skerritt, ed. et al, No Boundaries: Australian Aboriginal Contemporary Abstract Painting, Prestel Verlag, Munich-London-New York, 2014, p.122, p.119 (illus.)

Condition

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, on stretcher, unframed. Bears Warlayirti Arts catalogue number 622/00, artists name, PAMM label, Arlcaston House Gallery. Melbourne, number AK6242 and Laverty collection label on reverse. Please note there is minor rubbing at the corners of the work where the canvas meets the stretcher. Otherwise, the work is in excellent condition overall with no visible evidence of repair or restoration.
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Catalogue Note

Oolaign is the site associated with the Tingari ancestors who gave people law, and whose teachings inform young initiates in the important men's rituals that are held at this place. In this painting, Oolaign is depicted in the early stages of the wet season when rain falls into various catchment areas where fresh and brackish waters of varying colours flow into along tributaries into the main channels of Sturt Creek. The flow of water may be read as a metaphor for the transition of boys into men and the acquisition of ancestral knowledge through initiation rituals. For a related work in the Thomas Vroom Collection see Sturt Creek, W.A., 1998, in Petitjean, G., Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The AAMU and Dutch Collections, AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht, and Snoeck Editions, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2010, p.55 (illustrated).

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