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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Art | Australian | International | Aboriginal Auction
• Sale Date:
  14 Sep 2020 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  6130
• Lot Description:
  Elizabeth Marks Nakamarra
  (b.1959)
  Lightning Dreaming at Karlipinpa 2005
  Acrylic on Belgium linen, unstretched
  123 x 151 cm
  Accompanied by photographs of work in progress & of the artist with this work
• Provenance:
  Ngintaka Aboriginal Arts, Alice Springs, 2005; Corroboree Exports, Adelaide, Catlogue no. EMO10506
• Notes:
  Elizabeth Nakamarra Marks lives to the east of Kintore, in the Northern Territory. Her languages are Pintupi, Luritja &, from her mother's side, Warlpiri. She is a member of Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., one of the later generation of women artists to join this important, Aboriginal owned & operated cooperative, based in Kintore & Kiwirrkura. Her father died when she was an infant & Elizabeth was raised by her stepfather Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula & uncle Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, both esteemed artists of the Papunya Tula art movement. She married the late Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, also a key artist of the Papunya Tula movement, with whom she had three children Angelina, Peter and Farren. Elizabeth Marks Nakamarra studied for three years at the Bachelor College in Alice Springs & served as a council member in Kintore for two years where she worked assiduously assisting her community members. Elizabeth began painting in her own right in 1998 after her husband died, painting her father’s (Tjupurrula) stories from the area of Kalipinya, located approximately 400km west of Alice Springs & north of Sandy Blight Junction. Her paintings revolve around the subject of the Dream Time, the time before man walked the earth, when a huge storm caused lightning to flash & the water torrent formed the landscape creating rock holes & creeks. Her paintings incorporate elements of the storm, lightning, flash flooding, important rock holes, soaks & creeks. She is known for her Escher-like paintings, which use one colour, with a contrasting lighter hue, on a black background. The straight lines are made up of dragged dots, & are drawn at ninety degrees to each other to build retreating & advancing line-tunnels.
• Estimate:
  A$1,200 - 1,800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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