AUCTION | Aboriginal Works of Art | 4 June 2019

LOT #2 Minnie Pwerle (1910-2006) Awelye Atnwengerrp, 2005 123 x 90 cm synthetic polymer paint on canvas $5,000 - 8,000 PROVENANCE Dacou Gallery, NT Cat No. 06217 Private Collection, NSW accompanied by a Dacou Gallery certificate of authenticity Minnie Pwerle, whose husband was the brother of famed artist Emily Kngwarreye, began painting her country Atnwengerrp and its associated Dreamings in earnest at 77 years of age. While Minnie resembles Emily in her prodigious output and gestural vigour, it is the bush melon and its seed, rather than the yam, or bush potato, which were her own Dreamings and the subject of her art.