Provenance
The Artist
Dacou Gallery, Adelaide, cat. no. SS1197163
Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, cat. no. FG010024.EK
Private Collection, Melbourne
Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26-27 July 2010, lot 130
Spinifex & Sand Collection, Tasmania
Spinifex and Sand: The Tony Norton and Jann Williams Collection of Aboriginal Fine Art, Mossgreen Auctions, Melbourne, 4 April 2016, lot 29
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Dacou Gallery, Adelaide, cat. no. SS1197163
Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, cat. no. FG010024.EK
Private Collection, Melbourne
Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26-27 July 2010, lot 130
Spinifex & Sand Collection, Tasmania
Spinifex and Sand: The Tony Norton and Jann Williams Collection of Aboriginal Fine Art, Mossgreen Auctions, Melbourne, 4 April 2016, lot 29
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Alhalkere-Paintings from Utopia, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 20 February - 13 April 1998; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 May - 19 July 1998, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 8 September - 22 November 1998, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 13 February - 26 April 1999
Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan: February 26 – April 13, 2008; National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan: May 28 – July 28, 2008; National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia: August 22 – October 12, 2008
Emily Kam Kngwarray: Everything, D'Lan Contemporary, Frieze Masters, The Regent's Park, London, 11-15 October 2023
Literature
Margo Neale, et al, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Alhalkere-Paintings from Utopia, Melbourne: Macmillan, 1998, p.62 cat.89, p.144, pl.94 (illus.).
Margo Neale (ed.), Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Canberra: National Museum of Australia, 2008, pp.206-207 (illus.).
Vanessa Merlino, Emily Kam Kngwarray: Everything, Frieze Masters 2023, D’Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, p. 38.
Margo Neale (ed.), Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Canberra: National Museum of Australia, 2008, pp.206-207 (illus.).
Vanessa Merlino, Emily Kam Kngwarray: Everything, Frieze Masters 2023, D’Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, p. 38.
Description
Decision about including this work in the London exhibition should be made after we see what the Tate retrospective do with regards to these works.