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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Timed Online Auction | Australian Indigenous Art, featuring works from the collection of James Smeaton
• Sale Date:
  06 Jun 2023 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  12
• Lot Description:
  Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi
  Parwalla, 2002
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  80.0 x 80.0 cm
  bears inscription verso: artist?s name, size and Warlayirti Artists cat. 607/02
• Provenance:
  Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney Milton and Alma Roxanas, Sydney The Roxanas Collection of Aboriginal Art, Bonhams, Sydney, 11 May 2014, lot 195 Private collection, New South Wales
• Exhibited:
  Elizabeth Nyumi, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, 18 July - 9 August 2002, cat. 2
• Notes:
  This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Warlayirti Artists which states:   'This painting depicts the country of Elizabeth's father. This country is known as Parwalla and is located far to the south of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert, west of the community of Kiwirrkurra. The landscape of the area is dominated by tali, or sand dunes. The Parwalla area is a swampy area, filling a huge area with water after the wet season rain. These wet season rains result in an abundance of good bush tucker. The majority of the painting shows the different bush foods, including kantjili, or bush raisin, and minyili. Women, the U shapes, with their wana (digging sticks) and coolimons are also depicted. The white colour, which dominates the painting represents the spinifex which grows strong and seeds after the wet season rains. These seeds are white in colour, and grow so thickly they obscure the ground and other plants below.'
• Estimate:
  A$4,500 - 6,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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