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...only did the movement's founding fathers summon up their far-flung homelands in paint, but they would return to them by decade's end, setting up outstations at places like Kintore and Kiwirrkura near the Western Australian border. Their signature dotted style not only dazzled the art market but also kept their sacred stories screened, in the process producing "masterpieces of ambiguity, equivocation and disguise," cultural theorist Paul Carter has written. By the mid-'90s, as the senior men began to pass away, their wives and daughters took up the brush, releasing a second wave of artists. Nearing...
...auction was organized for the close of the show, with 35 Aboriginal works donated by collectors, artists and dealers. Central were four large new collaborative paintings by the men and women of Kintore and Kiwirrkura, a Pintupi settlement 200 km to the west, across the West Australian border. These came together as quickly and spontaneously as the Papunya movement had 20 years earlier. "We just threw the paints out," recalls Sweeney, "and they went for it." So, too, did bidders on the auction night, including businessman Kerry Stokes, who paid $A300,000 for the Kiwirrkura men's painting...
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