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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Part 2: Important Aboriginal & Oceanic Art
• Sale Date:
  27 Nov 2013 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  145
• Lot Description:
  Emily Kame Kngwarreye
  (c1910 - 1996)
  Kame Colour, 1995
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  150.0 x 90.0 cm
  inscribed verso: artist's name and Delmore Gallery cat. 95I087
• Provenance:
  Delmore Gallery, Alice Springs; Collection of Donald and Janet Holt, Northern Territory; Lawson~Menzies, Sydney, 22 November 2006, lot 102; Private collection, Victoria; Lawson~Menzies, Sydney, 19 March 2008, lot 233; Private collection, Melbourne
• Notes:
  This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Delmore Gallery. Kame Colour, 1995 by Emily Kngwareye presents as a boldly formed composition of line that is very powerful. Emily's remarkable command of her canvas space and her artistry with colour has created an immediate and hugely confident visual expression of her country. Lines are carefully worked over this canvas as an abstract definition of the 'Atnulare' (yam) plant. These lines intersect where life erupts from the earth and spreads with the wild fertility that occurs after drought-breaking rains. This abstract expression is fundamental to understanding Emily Kngwarreye's world. We also recognise the body paint lines essential to the participatory role of women in ceremony. They take the viewer into an atmosphere of dance and song as a reminder of the inspirational basis that Emily worked from, and through that to the desertdweller's mindset with regard to the vital knowledge and law underpinning survival.' JANET HOLT
• Estimate:
  A$150,000 - 200,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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