Yam Dreaming 1996

EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE (c1910-1996)

Anmatyerre language group
Yam Dreaming 1996

synthetic polymer paint on canvas
122.0 x 152.5 cm; 124.5 x 155.5 cm (framed)
bears inscription verso: #5514

accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne

Provenance:
Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne (stock no.5514)
Dr Michael & Mrs Patricia Bernard, Melbourne
Menzies, Sydney, 9 August 2018, lot 118
Private collection, Sydney
Acquired from the above, company collection, Sydney

Estimate: $50000 - 70000

Result Hammer: $50000

Alhalker Country is ours – so is the anwerlarr yam. I paint my plant, the one I am named after – those seeds I am named after. Kam is its name. Kam. I am named after the anwerlarr plant. I am Kam! The pencil yam grows in our Country – it belongs to us – the Anwerlarr yam. They are found growing up along the creek banks. That’s what I painted. I keep on painting the place that belongs to me – I never change from painting that place. The seeds and seedpods of the pencil yam originated there. That’s all.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye quoted in Green, J., Emily Kam Kngwarray, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2023, p.150

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