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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Aug 29, 2023 | Bonhams | Sydney | Important Australian Art | 22 | $****** - ****** | Untitled |
paintings
120 x 90 cm (47.24 x 35.43 in)
synthetic polymer paint on linen
inscribed verso: "EMILY KNGWARREYE / 93L047 / commissioned by DELMORE"
Delmore Gallery, Alice Springs (cat. 93L047)
Private collection, Germany, acquired from the above on 13 September 2001
Kngwarreye"s art is inextricably linked to her intimate knowledge of the changing landscape throughout the seasons and the provision of food that it provides. She "knew a life before European presence, a time of seasonal movement, of harvesting wild seeds, fruits, vegetables and animals on her own country. The coming of the rain represented the imminent full growing time, "green time".1
As Tony Elwood noted in his essay for the artist"s internationally touring 2008 retrospective, Emily"s development as an artist over the eight relatively short years of her career are quite remarkable. Her work was entirely drawn from her own visual language and cultural roots with no external influence, yet surprisingly she followed a classic pattern common to all abstract expressionists: "from a tightly controlled vernacular into a much looser, more confident approach to mark-making".2
Indeed, this 1993 work marks a defined shift from the clearly defined dots and linework of the yam roots in her earlier work, to fields of merging, dragged brush marks in the rich colours of the ever-changing summer landscape. The overlaying of multiple colours and the constantly shifting directions of the blurred lines serve to emphasize the dynamic nature of her country.
Francesca Cavazzini
1. Jennifer Isaacs, T.Smith, J.Ryan et al, Emily Kngwarreye Paintings , Craftsmans House, Sydney, 1998, p. 13
2. Margo Neale, (Ed.), Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kngwarreye , National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2008, p.19
This painting is accompanied by Delmore Gallery documentation
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (circa 1910-1996)
Untitled, 1993
inscribed verso: "EMILY KNGWARREYE / 93L047 / commissioned by DELMORE"
synthetic polymer paint on linen
120.0 x 90.0cm (47 1/4 x 35 7/16in).
