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Lot 99
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BUTCHER CHEREL JANANGOO

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 AUD
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Description

  • Butcher Cherel Janangoo
  • THIRRWI (HILL KANGAROO) 2000

  • Bears label with artist's name, title, year, catalogue number, medium, size and exhibition catalogue number 11, and label with description of the story depicted on the reverse

  • Synthetic polymer paint on paper
  • 75.7 by 56 cm

Provenance

Artplace, Perth
Private collection, Perth

Exhibited

Janangoo - Imanara - Gooniyandi, Artplace, Perth, 16 August - 9 September 2001

Condition

The painting is in very good condition. It is framed and behind glass with an open mount.
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Catalogue Note

Cf. The series of paintings Imanara: Big Country, 1999, in the Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, illustrated in Imanara Butcher, Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, and Artplace, Perth, Festival of Perth, 1999 (exhibition catalogue); and Garn.gi, Girndi, Tharloo and Marrawarra, 1998, also in the Kerry Stokes Collection, in Stringer, J. and A.M. Brody, H20: A Miscellany of Works from the Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth International Arts Festival, 2000, p.88, plate 75, illus

Butcher Cherel was recognised as a State Living Treasure by the government of Western Australia in 2004 and was selected as a finalist in The Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, 24 August - 22 October 2006.

This painting is sold with an accompanying Artplace certificate that reads: 'This is a story about thirrwi, (hill Kangaroo). In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime), it left its place and travelled towards the desert country. This ngaarri (hill) you see him today. It is a place where thirrwi left its tracks.'