MY COUNTRY - AFTER HAILSTORM, 2004

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
14 October 2009
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Kathleen Petyarre

born c.1945
MY COUNTRY - AFTER HAILSTORM, 2004

synthetic polymer paint on linen

167.5 x 168.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name and cat. GAKP1204452

Estimate: 
$15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $19,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 11 - 14 October 2009, Melbourne
Provenance

Commissioned by Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
Private collection, Adelaide

Related works

For an earlier example of My Country – Hailstorm painted in 2001 see: Nicholls, C., and North, I., Kathleen Petyarre, Genius of Place, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2001, p. 61

 

Catalogue text

This Dreaming site is situated in the artist's father's country that is identified by a group of sand-hills that are represented in this painting by the prominent parallel lines. Depicted throughout the painting are seeds (ntang) of the pea, which are an important food for the “traditional healer” (ngangkar), and the Mountain Devil Lizard (Arnkerrth). The white painted areas represent hailstones (Puta Puta) that shows a big hailstorm has passed over the country. Hailstorms are an unusual occurrence during the stormy summer months in central Australia.