Sotheby's: Aboriginal Art including the Wallent collection of Hermannsburg watercolours and ephemera: Lot 44
c - QUEENIE MCKENZIE (NAKARRA)
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CIRCA 1930-1998
UNTITLED 1993
120 by 160 cm
Bears size and Waringarri Aboriginal Arts catalogue number 510 on the reverse
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
PROVENANCE
Indigenart, Perth
Private collection, Switzerland
NOTE
The work features the range of the artist's distinctive palette of natural earth pigments from powdery pink, pale violet and deep red, to tones of yellow ochre. The colours appealed to Queenie's sense of beauty, as she herself stated, and in fact she mined the pigments herself. The composition of rows of hills viewed in profile is also characteristic of her work
Cf. Limestone hills near Texas Downs, 1991, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, in Ryan, J. and K. Akerman (eds.), Images of Power: Aboriginal art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p.55, illus
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Catalogue Information
Auction House
Sotheby's
Auction Title
Aboriginal Art including the Wallent collection of Hermannsburg watercolours and ephemera
Auction Date
2006
