Emily Kam Kngwarreye
(c.1910 - 1996)
ENDUNGA, 1989
synthetic polymer paint on linen
148.0 x 117.5 cm
bears inscription verso: artist’s name and Delmore Gallery cat. D131
Estimate:
$90,000 - $120,000
© Emily Kngwarreye/Copyright Agency, 2018
lot details
Commissioned by Delmore Gallery, via Alice Springs in November 1989
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Emily Kngwarreye, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, 8 May – 2 June 1990 (illus. front cover of exhibition brochure)
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Delmore Gallery, via Alice Springs
Related Works
Awelye, 1989 – 90, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 140.0 x 72.0 cm, in the Holmes à Court collection, Perth, illus. in Carrigan, B., Utopia: Ancient Cultures New Forms, Heytesbury Pty Ltd and The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1999, p. 40
Endunga, 1989 – 90, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 121.5 x 90.0 cm, in the collection of Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, illus. in Carrigan, B., Utopia: Ancient Cultures New Forms, Heytesbury Pty Ltd and The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1999 p. 41
The exhibition, A Summer Project; Utopia Women’s Paintings (The First Works on Canvas-1988-89) was held at the S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney in April 1989. Coordinated by the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) in Alice Springs, the exhibition was the culmination of the second special project initiated the previous year when eighty-one canvases of the same size were supplied to the artists of Utopia. By the time the exhibition took place, all works had been acquired by the Holmes à Court Collection in Perth. The exhibition featured Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s earliest paintings on canvas that were made during the summer of 1988 – 89 and her painting, Emu Woman, 1988 – 89, appeared on the cover of the exhibition catalogue.
BROCHURE FEATURING ‘ENDUNGA’,