Art Collector 37. This work is in very good condition overall, and is unstretched. https://www.kateowengallery.com/artists/Mak44/Makinti-Napanangka.htm Makinti Napanangka commenced painting for the Papunya Tula Artists in 1996 but had already painted with acrylics on canvas during the Kintore and Haasts Bluff project in 1993 / 1994. Email:  sales@doongal.com.au. 104, Sydney, 2004, 104, 105 (colour illus.). 09 Jan 2011. 2001 - Dreamtime: the Dark and the Light, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Vienna; Desert Flowering:Aborignal Art from Private Collections, Manawatu Gallery, New Zealand. Please enter username. 1998 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic; 1998, Utopia Art Sydney; 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1998, Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T. You will see a notification whether or not the current bid has met the reserve. Within the Lake Macdonald region in the central deserts of the harsh Australian interior, Makinti Napanangka was born circa 1930, and in the early 1940s, she traveled with her husband Nyukuti Tjupurrula into the Haasts Bluff community. Makinti’s gestural style and bold line work was derived from painting with her fingers dipped in earth ochres onto her clanswomen’s bodies for ceremony. Even when her eyesight faltered, Napanangka's enthusiasm for painting on canvas remained undiminished. Through the seventies, the male Pintupi painters had developed an austere and very precise mode of design that managed to convey the intensity of ceremonial artistry without revealing traditional sacred content. Makinti Napanangka was born in approximately 1930 and sadly passed away in January 2011. An existing condition which generally does not involve risk of loss. 2001 18th NATSIAA, Darwin, NT Palya Proper Fine Art operates in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, the lands of the Arrernte people. Areas bordering the central image, outside the plate marks, or the perimeter area. Makinti Napanangka commenced painting for the Papunya Tula Artists in 1996 but had already painted with acrylics on canvas during … Makinti in 2003 was a finalist for the Clemenger Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and in 2008, she won the Major Prize of the Silver Jubilee Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander award. 2001 Size Doesn’t Matter, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Vic 2005 Strong and Stately, Red Dot gallery, Singapore Makinti Napanangka’s work is very popular and highly sought after. 2000 Papunya Tula ‘Genesis and Genius’, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney While many of her works produced for these alternate sources are equal to anything produced for Papunya Tula, the market, currently deeply concerned about provenance issues, does not think them of as highly. ), 282. 1995 - Minyma Tjukurrpa, Kintore/Haasts Bluff Canvas Project, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide. 2003 Masterpieces from the Western Desert,, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, UK ©2020 Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Makinti’s style of art is quite different from that of her contemporaries and is not concerned with the dot style of artwork. Thank you for subscribing to the the artnet Auctions Newsletter. Craftsman House. 1998 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic Makinti Napanangka was born in 1930 in the Lake MacDonald region of Central Australia. Makinti Napanangka (c. 1930-2011), painter, was a leading artist of the Western Desert. We will continue to bid on your behalf up to your maximum bid only if there are competing bidders on the lot. She moved to Haasts Bluff with her husband, where she lived until Papunya was established in 1960. 1996 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT Still, with only 28 works sold for more than $10,000, all but a tiny number of her higher priced works have Papunya Tula provenance. *A reserve price is the minimum value the seller will accept for the work. Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink (Editors), Papunya Tula: genesis and genius, Sydney, 2000, 140 (colour illus. Untitled, Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Aug 2000–12 Nov 2000. She was born in the area of Karrkurritinytja (Lake Macdonald) in the Western Desert of Central Australia. The work was originally purchased from Central Art in Alice Springs and accompanied by a 40-minute video of the artist painting at various stages throughout its creation. She has been described by Utopia Art's director as the Central Desert's "best painter since Emily (Kngwarreye), with no living match in her painterly freedom, and her fearless blend of naive and sophisticated elements". Born circa 1930 in the area of Karrkurritinytja (lake Macdonald), and is a senior Pintupi woman now living in Kintore, Central Australia. 1996 Utopia Art Sydney, NSW This recognition followed several important solo exhibitions held at Utopia Art Sydney in 2000 and 2001 and at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi the following year. She bounced back however in 2015 and finished as the 12th most successful during that year.