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Kweyetwemp (Kathleen) Petyarre, born circa 1940, ATNANGKERE STORY
Kweyetwemp (Kathleen) Petyarre, born circa 1940, ATNANGKERE STORYEstimate $2,000 – $3,000
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- Lot Sold $2,000 (Hammer Price)
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batik on silk
116 BY 240.5CM
Provenance:
Painted at Utopia in the late 1980s
Rodney Gooch, Alice Springs
Private collection
Exhibited:
Genius of Place, 9 May - 22 July 2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Cf. For a similar batik by the artist see Atnangkere Story in Anne Marie Brody, Utopia: a picture story: 88 silk batiks from the Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Perth: Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, 1990, pp.74-75.
Kathleen Petyarre started her career as an artist in 1977 and was one of the founding members of the Women's Batik Group at Utopia. It was not until ten years later in 1987 that she began painting on canvas.
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