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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian Indigenous & Oceanic Art
• Sale Date:
  06 Jun 2016 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  24
• Lot Description:
  Emily Kame Kngwarreye
  (circa 1910-1996)
  Wild Yam and Emu Food (1990)
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  152.4 x 123 cm
• Provenance:
  Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory (0F46); Private collection, New South Wales
• Notes:
  This painting is sold with a Delmore Gallery certificate. Painted in the heat of January in 1990, in this is a refreshingly free-flowing composition Kngwarreye demonstrates her mastery of the intuitive brushmark through the meandering line that maps the underground spread of the roots of arlatyey, the pencil yam, bounded only by the edges of the canvas. The matrix of dots that represent the flowers of the plant and its seeds (kam) is applied in varying density to create a fluctuating, floating field, suggestive of the ancestral forces present in the land that are at once both intangible but palpable. The restrained palette adds to the force of the composition. By dint of the fact that kam was Kngwarreye’s major personal totem, the work possesses an intensely personal dimension, and it may be read as a visual metaphor representing Kngwarreye in her country. Related paintings which feature the roaming meander include Anatye (Wild Potato), 1989, and Emu Story, 1989, both in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Wally Caruana
• Estimate:
  A$60,000 - 80,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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