Queenie McKenzie Nakarra circa 1930-1998
Queenie McKenzie Nakarra circa 1930-1998Estimate $45,000 – $65,000
SAINT GEORGE AND MANLY - THE FINALISTS 1996
natural earth pigments on canvas
signed 'Queenie' (illeg.) verso
121.5 X 151.5CM
PROVENANCE
Painted at Turkey Creek Warmun Artists,
Western Australia (stock #465, QM0039)
Pirra Fine Arts, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne
Fine Aboriginal Art, Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 27 June 2000, lot 110, illustrated
Private Collection, United States of America
EXHIBITED
A Fairy's Tail, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 11 December 2009 – 7 February 2010
Written in the Land - the life of Queenie McKenzie, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 March - 18 April 2009
LITERATURE
National Directory of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Organisations-2000, Shandwick International Publication, Melbourne, 2000, cover (illustrated)
Jennifer Issacs, Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Hardie Grant Books, Australia, 1999, pp. 130-133
Susan McCulloch, Contemporary Aboriginal Art: A Guide to the Rebirth of Ancient Culture, Allen & Unwin, 1999, p. 119
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA