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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2022 ~ 7.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  30
• Lot Description:
  Queenie McKenzie
  (circa 1930-1998)
  North of Purnululu (Bungle Bungles), 1994
  natural earth pigments on linen
  92.0 x 163.0cm (36 1/4 x 64 3/16in).
  inscribed verso: 'KIMBERLEY / ART / QM05/94'
• Provenance:
  Kimberley Art, Melbourne (cat. QM05/94); Cooee Aboriginal Art, Sydney; The Stefano Spaccapietra Collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above 30 June 1995
• Notes:
  According to the accompanying documentation, the white geological formation in the top left of the composition depicts Yalga [Yarlka], "Yarlka, this white mountain, this my spirit place. My mother, old Dinah, she found white porcupine la swag la Yarlka. That porcupine [echidna] was me. That white stone from that hill, they break him up for spear. Good spear, that one."1. The formation is also labelled Glass Mountain, which is, in fact, Glass Hill, located to the West of the Ord River in Purnululu (the Bungle Bungles). Nytbudiah (or Nyutburria) indicated in the top right is Queenie's Mother's Country. 1. Queenie McKenzie in tape interview with by Patricia Vinnicombe in 1994 reproduced in Artlink, Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, Issue 20:1, March 2000
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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