UNTITLED (ALALGURA LANDSCAPE/YAM FLOWERS), 1995

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
17

EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE

(c. 1910 – 1996)
UNTITLED (ALALGURA LANDSCAPE/YAM FLOWERS), 1995

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

151.0 x 121.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist’s name, Delmore Gallery cat. 95K036 and 'Chapman Gallery'

Estimate: 
$30,000 – 40,000
Sold for $48,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
The Laverty Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in December 1996
Bonhams, Sydney, 24 March 2013, lot 118
Private collection, Hong Kong

Exhibited

Southern Reflections – Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998; Kulturhuset (Cultural Centre) Stockholm, Sweden, 1998; Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway, 1999; Goteborgs Konsthall, Gothenberg, Sweden, 1999

Literature

Cross, E., Southern Reflections – Ten Contemporary Australian Artists, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, cat. 11, p. 10 (illus.)
Laverty, C., 'Diversity and Strength: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art – A Private Collection', Arts of Asia, November - December 2003, cat. 17, p. 88 (illus.)
Larkin, A., 'Perspectives - Hunters and Collectors', Arco Contemporary Art Magazine, Number 33, Spring 2005, p. 18 (illus.)
Laverty, C. and Laverty, E., Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities - The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008, p. 94 (illus.)
Laverty, C. and Laverty, E., Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art - The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Edition II, Kleimeyer Industries, Melbourne, 2011, p. 101 (illus.)