EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE (c1910-1996)
Bush Yam Dreaming 1994
Estimate: $100000 - 120000
Sold For:
$90000 hammer
$108000 inc. buyer's premium
Description
EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE (c1910-1996)
Ammatyerre language group
Bush Yam Dreaming 1994
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
183.0 x 122.0 cm
inscribed verso: #5512
Provenance:
Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne (accompanied by certificate of authenticity AGOD#5512)
Private collection, Victoria
Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 23 May 2007, lot 80
Private company collection, Melbourne
Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 19 June 2008, lot 242
Private collection, Melbourne
Related Works:
For stylistically similar works see: 'Wild Yam I, 1995' in; Holt, J., (et. al.), Emily Kngwarreye Paintings, Craftsman House, 1998 (pl.70 illus. pp.166-167 and various other works pp.168-180). Also the cover image of the retrospective catalogue Emily Kngwarreye, Alhalkere Paintings from Utopia, Neale, M. (ed.) Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1998
Estimate: $100000 - 120000
Result Hammer: $90000
Location
Auction in Sydney, 16 December 2009
Deutscher-Menzies, Australian & International Fine Art, Lots 1 - 110
Lawson-Menzies, Colonial to Contemporary including Important Aboriginal Art, Lots 111 - 252
Exhibition in Melbourne, 3-6 December 2009
Exhibition in Sydney, 10-15 December 2009