Norah Napaljarri Nelson, born 1956, YIWARRA JUKURRPA (MILKY WAY DREAMING)
Norah Napaljarri Nelson, born 1956, YIWARRA JUKURRPA (MILKY WAY DREAMING)Estimate $5,000 – $7,000
synthetic polymer paint on linen
bears artist's name and Warlukurlangu Artists catalogue number 291/90 on the reverse
88.7 BY 153CM
Provenance:
Painted at Yuendumu in 1989
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu
Donald Kahn Collection
Literature:
Geoffrey Bardon and Vivien Johnson, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Miami: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1991, p.67, cat.no.36 (iIlus.), p.83
Exhibited:
Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, 1991; Carolino Augusteum Museum, Salzburg, The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Naprstkovo Museum, Prague and The Museum of Ethnology, Warsaw during 1992-1993 Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 26 July-16 October 1994
Australian Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert- The Donald Kahn Collection, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 3 December 1994-28 January 1995
Desert Dreaming: Australian Aboriginal Art, Albertina, Vienna, 15 June - 26 August 2007
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1994, p.60, cat.no.36 (black and white illus.), pp.142-143 (colour illus.)
This painting is sold with an accompanying Warlukurlangu Artists certificate