Auction Results Mrs Bennett painting Untitled sold for $23,000 and The Rockhole Site of Yumarra $19,200.
Biography  Mrs Bennett, Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa, an important Australian artist, has developed her own unique style of painting in contrast to the other Kintore artists. An ancient tradition of 60 thousands years gave the world its most exciting form of contemporary art. One can argue that Aboriginal art is the most important contemporary art to come out of this ancient land.

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Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (aka Mrs Bennett) is married to the late John John Tjapangati Bennett, a Pintupi speaker from Mukulurru, also north of Docker River. Mrs Bennett, Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa born around1935 is an important Australian artist, she has developed a unique style in contrast to other Kintore artists. Nyurapayia was a major participant in the Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project  titled "Minyma Tjukurrpa" in 1994 and the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in 1995. Mrs Bennett, is the commanding figure among today's western desert women artists, a painter of the utmost force and will.

COLLECTIONS:
Art Bank, Sydney 
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Museum of Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Homes a Court Collection, Perth
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
Art Bank, Sydney
Donald Kahn Collection USA

Aboriginal art is the most important contemporary art to come out of this ancient land.  Each painting tells a story as well as having an imposing decorative element to the art work. Aboriginal art is part of a living tradition and as the culture goes through a transition, major changes are taking place in the aboriginal communities and people move to the towns learning western ways. The artist’s age thus it is probably the last chance that anyone on this planet can buy such authentic indigenous work of art.  Aboriginal paintings are powerful works of art that look superb in modern buildings and they signify, for the people who display them a connection with the present as well as the past. You have an opportunity to purchase the work of the mature, established artists who have had an original traditional aboriginal upbringing.

Nyurapayia was a participant in the Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project in 1994. This resulted in an exhibition titled Minyma Tjukurrpa and was held at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in 1995. Other exhibitions of her works include ‘Twenty-five Years and Beyond’ (1999) and Australia Perspective (1999). Nyurapayia favors the use of strong contrasts using blacks and pale yellows/creams set in relief against a red ground. Her designs are based on the stories relating to women’s ceremony and often depict the gathering of traditional bush foods and the rituals that are connected with their preparation. The depictions of the sand dune country and surrounding rocky outcrops bear a relationship to the designs used for body painting during the ceremonial dance referred to as “inma”.

The remote Pangkupirri rock holes, a set of clear pools deep in the western desert's Walter James Range, are not well known in metropolitan Australia. But perhaps they should be, and one day will be: their sheer, red walls, the pinnacles and crags that surround them and the rivulets that flow from them are this continent's equivalent of the Saint-Remy gardens or the Mont Sainte-Victoire- a defining artistic landscape, associated with a single master. For Pangkupirri is the constantly depicted subject of "Mrs Bennett", Nyurapaia Nampitjinpa, the commanding figure among today's western desert women artists, a painter of the utmost force and will. The Australian February 15, 2010. Alternatively, link into your browser: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/on-the-united-colours-of-bennett/story-e6frg8n6-1225830244462

Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa born around 1935, lives in Kintore however, she has developed a very free and original style in contrast to artists in Kintore who prefer the very precise dot-painting method.

EXHIBITIONS
2007 Papunya Tula, Short Street Gallery, Broome, Western Australia, Australia.
2007 Papunya Tula Women, Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
2007 Survey-Group show of emerging artists, Raft Artspace, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
2007 The Black And White Show, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore.
2006 Yawulyurru kapalilu palyara nintilpayi, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2006 Paintings By Papunya Tula Artists, Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2006 A Particular Collection, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2006 Pintubi Dreaming, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2006 Land Marks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic
2006 Across The Board, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2004 The Inner and the Outer, Stadtgalerie Bamberg, Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany
2004 All About The Papunya, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2004 Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2004 Works From Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2004 Kuniya Pilkati, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
2003 Christmas Gift Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2003 Pintupi Art From The Western Desert, Indigenart, Subiaco, WA
2003 Aboriginal Art 2003, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Vic
2002 Next Generation - Aboriginal Art 2002, Art House Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2002 Paintings From Our country, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA
2002 Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula Painting, Academy of the Arts, University
of Tasmania, Tasmania
2002 Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula Painting, Brisbane City Gallery, QLD
2002 Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Vic
2002 Pintupi Mens' and Womens' Stories, Indigenart, Subiaco, WA
2002 Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2001 Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2001 Art House Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001 Papunya Tula 2001, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Vic
2001 Art of the Pintupi, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA
2001 Papunya Tula Women, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Vic
2001 Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula Painting, The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
2001 Indigenart, Subiaco, WA
2001 Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2001 Pintupi Women From Kintore, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2001 Size Doesn't Matter, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Vic
2000 Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2000 Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Art Gallerie Bahr, Speyer, Germany
2000 Aboriginal Art 2000, Scott Livesey Gallery, Armadale, Vic
2000 Papunya Tula - Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
2000 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT
2000 Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2000 Pintupi Women - Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
1999 Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
1999 Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Art Museum,
Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA
1996 Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd. Alice Springs, NT
1996 Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
1996 C.A.A.A.C.E, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT

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Auction Results Nyurapaiya Nampijinpa, born c1935- Australia (Aboriginal)      Email

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	$23,000 RETURN TOP	Nyurapaiya Nampijinpa, Untitled, 2005, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 297 x 181 cm, Est: $5,000-7,000, Philips Auctions Australia, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, , Lot No. 16, 18/09/2011
	$19,200 RETURN TOP	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, The Rockhole Site of Yumarra, 2002, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, inscribed verso, artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists cat. NN0203139, 242 x 182 cm, Est: $18,000-25,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Melbourne, Lot No. 142 , 24/03/2010
	$16,800 RETURN TOP	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, Tjukurla Country, 2005, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 154 x 122.5 cm, Est: $18,000-20,000, Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 23/05/2007, Lot No. 43
	$10,800	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, Women's Travels Through Yumarra 2001, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, bears artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number NN0109162 on the reverse, 153 x 122 cm, Est: $10,000-15,000, Sotheby's Australia, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, Lot No. 183 , 15/11/2005
	$10,800	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, Rockhole Near Yumarra 2000, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 152 x 122 cm, Est: $12,000-15,000, Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, Lot No. 18 , 14/11/2007
	$9,600	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, Women Travelling 2000, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 136 x 122 cm, Est: $12,000-15,000, Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, Lot No. 72, 14/11/2007
	$8,962	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, Yumarra 1999, Acrylic on linen, 152 x 122 cm, Est: $10,000-15,000, Mossgreen Auctions, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, Lot No. 13 , 08/04/2008
	$7,200	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, Untitled 2000, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, bears artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number NN0008064 on the reverse, 121 x 121 cm, Est: $6,000-8,000, Sotheby's Australia, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, Lot No. 79 , 15/11/2005
	$5,280	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, The Rockhole Site of Yumarra 2000, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, inscribed verso, artist's name, size, Papunya Tula Artists cat. NN0009131, 122 x 122 cm, Est: $4,000-6,000, Deutscher and Hackett, The Collection of William and Lucy Mora, Fine Abor, Melbourne, Lot No. 116 , 21/07/2010
	$4,800	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, Untitled, Acrylic on linen, bears the artist's name and Yanda Aboriginal Art ink label verso, 121 x 150 cm, Est: $4,000-6,000, Leonard Joel, The Sunday Art Auction, Melbourne, Lot No. 295 , 08/05/2011
	$4,541	Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett, Untitled, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, with Papunya Tula Artists number NN9611112 on the reverse, 90 x 91 cm, Est: $4,000-6,000, Christies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, Lot No. 199 , 30/08/2005

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MRSB200611-9529

Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett

synthetic polymer on linen

152 x 46 cm

Provenance: Yanda Aboriginal Art

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Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett

synthetic polymer on linen

92 x 76 cm

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Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett

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Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka Mrs Bennett

synthetic polymer on linen

182 x 152 cm

Provenance: Yanda Aboriginal Art

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