Lot 141
  • 141

LILY KELLY NAPANGARDI

Estimate
45,000 - 65,000 AUD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Lily Kelly Napanardi
  • BIG GOANNA IN SANDHILLS
  • Bears artist's name, title, size and Watiyawanu Artists catalogue number 10-0014LK and Wati 10 on the reverse

  • Synthetic polymer paint on linen

  • 182.5 by 182.5 cm

Provenance

Painted at  Mount Liebig for Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu in 2003
Neil Murphy Indigenous Art, Sydney
Corporate collection


Condition

The painting is in good and stable condition with no signs of restoration or repair with some minor scuffing at the edges and corners of the canvas and a few small white paint spots at the upper edge of the painting
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Catalogue Note

Cf. Perkins, H., One Sun One Moon, Aboriginal Art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, p.199, illus; for an illustration of one of the related works in the Art Gallery of New South Wales

This painting is one of a series of three large canvases of the same dimensions painted concurrently, the other two of which are now in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

This work is sold with an accompanying Watiyawanu Artists certificate