LOT #19 Kathleen Petyarre (1940-2018) My Country - Bush Seeds - After Sandstorm, 2010 152 x 152 cm synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen $16,000 - 22, 000 PROVENANCE Commissioned by Gallerie Australis, SA Cat No. GAKP1010621 Private Collection, SA accompanied by a Gallerie Australis certificate of authenticity EXHIBITION HISTORY Parcours des Mondes, Saint Germain, Paris, 2013 Katheen Petyarre is best known for her finely wrought, intimate renditions of the vast landscapes in the Eastern Desert. These were created during the epic journeys of her Dreaming ancestor and totem, the tiny Thorny Devil Lizard, referred to as ‘that Old Woman Mountain Devil’. This tiny desert creature is believed to have created the vast desert home of the Eastern Anmatjerre people by moving each grain of sand, grain by grain, since the dawn of time. Petyarre and her clanswomen believe that they are its descendants, and have therefore inherited the responsibility for caring and nurturing the vast landscape that she depicts so intimately and carefully in her paintings.
AUCTION | Aboriginal Works of Art | 4 June 2019
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