Aboriginal Art including the Wallent collection of Hermannsburg watercolours and ephemera

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Lot 44
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QUEENIE MCKENZIE (NAKARRA)

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Description

  • Queenie McKenzie (Nakarra)
  • UNTITLED 1993
  • Bears size and Waringarri Aboriginal Arts catalogue number 510 on the reverse

  • Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

  • 120 by 160 cm

Provenance

Indigenart, Perth
Private collection, Switzerland

Catalogue Note

The work features the range of the artist’s distinctive palette of natural earth pigments from powdery pink, pale violet and deep red, to tones of yellow ochre. The colours appealed to Queenie’s sense of beauty, as she herself stated, and in fact she mined the pigments herself. The composition of rows of hills viewed in profile is also characteristic of her work

 

 

Cf. Limestone hills near Texas Downs, 1991, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, in Ryan, J. and K. Akerman (eds.), Images of Power: Aboriginal art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p.55, illus