“A love situation” is how the young art teacher Geoffrey Bardon described the activity depicted in a striking painting on board created by Pintupi artist Charlie Tawara (Watuma) Tjungurrayi at the dawn of the Western Desert art movement. Writing today for Sotheby’s New York, Melbourne-based curator John Kean is a little less circumspect: “They are a man and a woman having sex”.
Charlie Tawara Tjungurrayi, Moon Love Dreaming of Man and Woman - Medicine Story - Version 1, on the market for the first time since 1971, being sold at Sotheby's New York Aboriginal Art auction, with an estimate of $US30,000 to $US50,000.
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Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.
