Aboriginal Art
Aboriginal Art
EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE | UNTITLED (ALHALKERE)
Auction Closed
December 13, 10:40 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private American Collection
EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
CIRCA 1910-1996
UNTITLED (ALHALKERE)
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Bears artists name and Delmore Gallery catalogue number 93B158 on the reverse.
47 ⅝ in by 35 ⅜ in (121 cm by 90 cm)
Painted on Delmore Downs Station, Northern Territory, in February 1993
Eastern Desert Art (Delmore Gallery)
Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
Private Collection, United States, acquired from the above on 14 July 1993
This painting is accompanied by its original documentation written and signed by Janet Holt in February 1993. On the documentation she names the painting 'Summer Celebration' and identifies the country depicted as Alalgura (Alhalkerre), providing further interpretive notes relating to the ancestral Emu's activities in this country and the importance of the artist's Awelye (Ceremony) with regard to Alhalkere.