BODY PAINT, 1994

Important Aboriginal Art
Melbourne
25 March 2009
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EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE

(c.1910 - 1996)
BODY PAINT, 1994

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

38.5 cm x 31.0 (each)

inscribed verso: artist's name, title, date and Rodney Gooch (Mulga Bore) catalogue numbers 22.694MBA, 23.694MBA and 24.694MBA respectively

Estimate: 
$15,000 - 18,000 (3)
Sold for $36,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 7 - 25 March 2009, Melbourne
Provenance

Commissioned by Rodney Gooch (Mulga Bore Artists), Utopia, 1994
Utopia Art, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney

Related works

Utopia: Ancient Cultures, New Forms, Heytesbury Pty Ltd and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1998, p. 53 for a group of five paintings held in the Holmes à Court collection, Perth, that are part of the suite of small paintings commissioned by Rodney Gooch at Utopia in 1994