EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE - WOMEN'S DREAMING - AWELYE

 EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
WOMEN'S DREAMING - AWELYE,  1990
122 x 91 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
 
PROVENANCE
Utopia, NT
CAAMA, NT Cat. no 13-490 Rodney Gooch, NTUtopia Art, Sydney NSWPrivate Collection, NSWFine Contemporary and Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's Melbourne, 28th November 1995, lot 654Private Collection, VicImportant Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, July 27 2007, lot 62Private Collection, IsraelFine Early Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Mossgreen Auctions, Sydney, 29 August 2010, lot 50Private collection, Vic 
 
STORY
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.
 
EXHIBITED
EXHIBITEDFirst Solo Show, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney,Ā 1990Desert Painters of Australia: Two Generations, September 24-November 7, 2020, Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong