painting
- Museum number
- 2015,2029.2
- Title
- Object: Tjitjiti
- Description
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Painting on linen canvas. Red background. In centre is an oval shape made from a broad black band of paint. The oval is placed on a diagonal with the top to the left. All the inside of the black oval shape is painted white with just a few small edges of red showing through. Outside the oval, the work is covered all overall with further small oval/round shapes. Some of these are black circles painted with red inside; others are white with red inside or all white. There is one oval shape painted in black and covered all over with white dots. The rest of the canvas is covered with white dots on the red background.
- Production date
- 2014
- Dimensions
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Height: 75 centimetres (stretched onto a stretcher)
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Width: 60 centimetres (stretched onto a stretcher)
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Depth: 3.70 centimetres (stretched onto a stretcher)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The painting's title, Tjitjiti, refers to a place in the Great Victoria Desert where the artist was born. Tjitjiti is an area of a huge salt lake and the painting refers to the topography and Tjukurpa (Dreaming stories) of this place.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2015
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the support of Debra and Dennis Scholl and the American Friends of the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2015,2029.2
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 4515CW
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Miscellaneous number: SAPCW14089 (Arts Centre Number)
