JUDY NAPANGARDI WATSON "Mina Mina" Signed Acrylic on Canvas 153cm x 199cm

Regular price $35,000.00

JUDY NAPANGARDI WATSON (c1925 - 2016)
Hand Signed, Original Acrylic On Canvas

Title: Mina Mina Jukurrpa
Image Size: 153cm x 199cm  + Black Timber Frame with Shadow Line
Condition: Excellent

Stretched, Framed and Ready to Hang.

Comes with Certificate of Authenticity and photos of Judy with this work.

You can also come view this work and many others in our Surry Hills Gallery in Sydney. Please message me to arrange a time to view in person.

Serafin Martinez
Principal, Martinez Art Dealer
Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
ABN 36 561 407 649

Biography:

Judy Napangardi Watson (c. 1925 – 2016), also known as Judy Watson Napangardi and Kumanjayi Napangardi Watson, was an Aboriginal Australian and a senior female painter from the Yuendumu community in the Northern Territory, Australia.

 

Judy was born around 1925 at Yarungkanji on Mount Doreen Station. Her people, the Warlpiri, were living a traditional nomadic life at that time. They frequently made long journeys by foot to their ancestral country on the border of the Tanami and Gibson Deserts, and lived at Mina Mina and Yingipurlangu at different times.

 

She had ten children and later died at Yuendumu on 17 May 2016.


Napangardi started painting in the 1980s in a "dragged dotting" style. Her combination of vivid colour, highly detailed works and high-level composition led to widespread appreciation in the art world. Her paintings often describe the Mina Mina country. She was a member of the Warlukurlangu Artists community of Yuendumu.

 

Well known for the distinctive style of painting that she developed alongside her sister Maggie Napangardi Watson, who taught her painting skills, she was a significant contributor to contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

 


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