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Lot #24 - Dorothy Robinson Napangardi

  • Auction House:
    Bonhams Australia
  • Sale Name:
    Important Australian Art
  • Sale Date:
    11 May 2022 ~ 7.30pm (AEST)
  • Lot #:
    24
  • Lot Description:
    Dorothy Robinson Napangardi
    (circa 1956-2013)
    Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa, 2001
    synthetic polymer paint on linen
    122.0 x 122.0cm (48 1/16 x 48 1/16in).
    inscribed verso: 'Dorothy Napangardi / 6213DN''
  • Provenance:
    Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs (stamped verso); Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne; Private collection, Melbourne
  • Exhibited:
    Dancing up country: The work of Dorothy Napangardi, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 10 December 2002 - 9 March 2003 (label attached verso)
  • References:
    Merryn Gates (ed.), Dancing up country: the work of Dorothy Napangardi, exh. cat., Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002, pl. 30, p. 42 (illus.)
  • Notes:
    'In the Women's Dreaming, digging sticks called kana or karlangu, magically emerged from the land itself near Mina Mina and on nearby sites. The emergence of the digging sticks equipped the Ancestral Women for their travels along the interlacing Dreaming and dancing tracks that Napangardi references in her work.'1. Napangardi began painting the Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa between 1997 and 1998. Her paintings on this subject can be interpreted as intricately detailed maps of the overlapping, meandering pathways of the travelling Ancestral women with their digging sticks. The subtle colour gradations and undulating laying out of the fine dots imbue the canvas with a sense of vibrating motion, suggesting the rythmic dancing of the women, creating and transforming the landscape as they move across the land. Francesca Cavazzini 1. Merryn Gates (ed.), Dancing up country: the work of Dorothy Napangardi, exh. cat., Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002, p. 62
  • Estimate:
    A$8,000 - 12,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Art

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