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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  04 Apr 2023 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  14
• Lot Description:
  Emily Kame Kngwarreye
  (circa 1910-1996)
  After The Summer Rain, 1993
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  151.0 x 121.0cm (59 7/16 x 47 5/8in).
  inscribed verso: '93BO80 / Emily Kngwarreye / Commissioned by / Delmore Gallery'
  RELATED WORK: After Rain Summer, 1993, synthetic polymer on canvas, 151 x 120cm, the Holt Collection, illustrated in Jennifer Isaacs et al, Emily Kngwarreye Paintings, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997, p. 102
• Provenance:
  Delmore Gallery, Alice Springs, Northern Territory (cat. 93BO80); Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Belgium; Private collection, Belgium; Private collection, Melbourne
• Notes:
  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 8 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 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
• Estimate:
  A$80,000 - 120,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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