From a painting by a leading Australian Indigenous artist to a bejewelled book of Shakespeare poems, a Modernist beach buggy and a fine Greek marble, here are some of the works to look out for at the fair…

Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled—Winter Awelye (1995)
$380,000
D Lan Galleries

Market interest in contemporary Australian Indigenous art has soared recently, helped by acclaimed shows such as the travelling US exhibition The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art, which just closed in Washington, DC, and Tate Modern’s recently closed survey on one of the best-known Australian Indigenous artists, Emily Kam Kngwarray (around 1914-96). Kngwarray, a member of the Anmatyerr people, holds the auction record for an Australian female artist and the second highest price for an Indigenous artist, for her work Earth’s Creation I (1994), which sold for A$2.1m (around $1.5m) in 2017.

D Lan Galleries is bringing 13 “museum-quality works of art by artists who have shaped the trajectory of this dynamic art movement” from the 1970s to today, according to D’Lan Davidson, the gallery’s founder and director. These include this large-scale abstract work by Kngwarray, which is named after awely, the Anmatyerr term for women’s songs and ceremonies. The work features Kngwarray’s signature painted dots but also demonstrates her transition into more linear compositions that captured Anwerlarr (pencil yam)—a native plant that holds great cultural significance. Winter Awelye was painted just a month before one of her most famous works, Anwerlarr anganenty (Big yam Dreaming), a monumental work in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

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