YANNIMA TOMMY WATSON (c1935 - 2017)

Pitjantjatara - Central Western Desert

Hand Signed, Limited Edition Archival Pigments on Elegance Velvet 310 gsm Artist Paper

Title: Kapi Piti

Image Size: 100cm x 120cm

Sheet Size: 112cm x 130cm

Signed: Lower Image

Edition: Edition of 75 (17/75 for Illustration)

Condition: Excellent - New

Unframed.

Also comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

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Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia

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Biography:

Yannima Tommy Watson known as Tommy Watson (born 1930s) was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia's Central Western Desert. He was described by one critic as "the greatest living painter of the Western Desert".

He was born around 1935 in Anumarapiti, 75 kilometres west of Irrunytju, also known as Wingellina, in Western Australia, near the junction of its border with the Northern Territory and South Australia. His given names of Yannima and Pikarli relate to specific sites near Anumarapiti.

Tommy Watson began painting in 2001, and was one of a handful of painters establishing the Irrunytju community art centre in 2001.

Watson's work has received critical acclaim, both within Australia and internationally, with art critics drawing parallels between Watson and Western Abstract painters such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kasimir Malevich, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. John MacDonald wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that Watson "is a master of invention and arguably the outstanding painter of the Western Desert", going on to compare his use of colour to Henri Matisse.

In 2003 Watson was one of eight Indigenous artists, alongside Paddy Bedford, John Mawurndjul, Ningura Napurrula, Lena Nyadbi, Michael Riley, Judy Watson and Gulumbu ...