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WIMMITJI TJAPANGATI (1925 - 2000)
Untitled, 1989
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
90 x 60 cm

Provenance: Warlayiriti Artists: Cat. no. 106/89 Private Collection, NSW Sold with original art centre documentation and a letter from the art centre correcting the original mis-attribution. This painting, originally incorrectly attributed to Milliga Napaltjari by the art coordinator at Balgo Hills in 1989, is a fine example of Wimmitji's detailed painting style. It shows a Water Dreaming site deep in the Great Sandy Desert and the associated features and Dreaming tracks of the surrounding country. Footprints of an ancestral hunter are depicted. The meandering parallel snakes indicate the rockhole is located at a Wati Kutjara, Two Man Dreaming site associated with sacred Men's Law, and that there is 'Living Water', permanently in the rockhole. Wimmitji Tjapangati was amongst the first wave of desert nomads to come in to the Old Balgo Mission in 1943. The master painter of the Wirrimanu community, and husband to Eubena Nampitjin, he painted for only a brief period in the late 1980's and early 1990's.