Lot #128 - Emily Kame Kngwarreye
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Auction House:Deutscher and Hackett
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Sale Name:Important Aboriginal Art Auction
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Sale Date:28 Nov 2012 ~ 8.30pm
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Lot #:128
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Lot Description:Emily Kame Kngwarreye
c1910 – 1996
Untitled (Yam Story), 1995
synthetic polymer paint on linen
92.0 x 152.0 cm
inscribed verso: artist’s name and Delmore Gallery cat. 95E013 -
Provenance:Delmore Gallery, Alice Springs; Private collection, Northern Territory; Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 24 June 2002, lot 96; Private collection, United States of America
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Notes:Within Emily’s vision across this early ‘lined’ painting, is the yam increase centres linking an underground network from which growth will erupt and transform the landscape. This network is also viewed on the ground’s surface, showing where yams lie ready for harvesting. Always linked to Emily’s validity of expression is ‘Awelye’ – the ceremonial expression that invokes the spiritual power maintaining Nature’s fertility and hardiness. Body painting lines are fundamental to the participatory role of women in ceremony, and this practice unfailingly links to this painting. The belief that good seasons always return, that the yam ‘always comes back’, is fundamental to understanding the desert environment, and the belief system underpinning the role of ceremony that ensures this. JANET HOLT
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Estimate:A$30,000 - 40,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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