AUCTION | Aboriginal Works of Art | 4 June 2019

LOT #60 Bai Bai Napangarti (1935- ) Culbardu, in the Great Sandy Desert, WA, 1995 90 x 60 cm synthetic polymer paint on canvas $2,000 - 3,000 PROVENANCE Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, WA Cat No. 25/95 Cooee Art Gallery, NSW The Marecaux and Thompson Collection, NSS Tjala Aboriginal Art, Sydney, NSW The Mike Chandler Collection, NSW accompanied by the original Warlyirti Artists certificate of authenticity Bai Bai has painted some of her traditional country, which is located in the Great Sandy Desert, south of Balgo. She has depicted a soak with underground water linking two very sacred areas for women of the region. People of the Tjungurrayi and Nakamarra groups are sitting nearby with their boomerangs, nulla nullas and digging sticks.