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Emily Kame Kngwarreye

My Country/Yam Dreaming, 1995

Auction Closed

May 25, 09:41 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Circa 1910 - 1996

My Country/Yam Dreaming, 1995



Acrylic on linen

70 ¾ in by 47 ¼ in (180 by 120 cm)

Commissioned by Michael Hollow and painted in Alice Springs for the Aboriginal Desert Art Gallery
Aboriginal Galleries of Australia, Melbourne (stock no. 6651)
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Maryanne Hollow and Nina Bove, Tjinytjilpa: The Dotted Design. Selected Works from the Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia Collection, Melbourne, 1998, p. 11, pl. 13
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery,Tjinytjilpa: The Dotted Design. Selected Works from the Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia Collection, 22 March - 2 May 1998, and subsequently at five other venues in regional Victoria from 1998 - 1999
This painting is sold with extensive documentation provided by Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, which includes biographical and descriptive notes regarding this painting together with a series of photographs documenting the artist creating the work in the studio of Michael Hollow's Gallery, Alice Springs. Documentation refers to the work being exhibited in an exhibition entitled Tjinytjilpa that toured regional Victoria from 1998, and at the Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C., in June 1999.