EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, Alice Springs
Sotheby's, Fine Contemporary and Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, November 28, 1995, lot 654
Private collection, Israel

There is slight scuffing to the corners of the stretcher but these do not detract from the complete work. The painted surface areas appears stable and in very good condition.
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Cf. Neil, M. (ed.), Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkere, Paintings from Utopia, Queensland Art Gallery, 1998, pl.41, p.73,  for another example from 1990 featuring emu tracks.

This early work by Emily Kngwarreye was commissioned by Rodney Gooch and is representative of the sensitive and subtle paintings of the period. The arrow shapes masked by the over-dotting are representative of the ancestral Emu which, along with the yam dreaming, belonged to Emily and informed much of the iconography of her oeuvre.  As Kngwarreye's career evolved her work became increasingly abstracted and the linear and iconic elements of her early paintings disappeared, only to re-emerge in more minimalist forms towards the end of her life.