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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled (Alhalkerre), 1995

Emily Kam Kngwarray Anmatyerr language group, circa 1914-1996

Untitled (Alhalkerre), 1995
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
43 x 79 inches (110 x 201 cm)
Photo: Courtesy of D’Lan Contemporary
View on a Wall
Anmatyerr Language Group
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Provenance

The Artist, painted at Utopia, Northern Territory, 1995, cat. no. 11.1095

Rodney Gooch, Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney

Collection of Stephen Bush, New South Wales

Deutscher & Hackett, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 25 March 2009, lot 56

Private Collection, Sydney

Deutscher and Hackett, The Ainsworth Collection - Contemporary & Aboriginal Art; Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2014, lot 78

Private Collection, New York

D’Lan Contemporary, Melbourne

Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York

Exhibitions

Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkere, Paintings from Utopia, Queensland Art Gallery, 20 February - 13 April 1998; Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 May - 19 July 1998; National Gallery of Victoria, 22 September - 22 November 1998, cat, 78

Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 26 February - 13 April 2008; The National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 28 May - 28 July 2008; National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 22 August - 12 October 2008

Emily, D'Lan Contemporary, High Line Nine, New York, 4 - 12 March 2020

60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, 15 - 20 May 2023

Emily Kam Kngwarray, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2 December 2023 – 28 April 2024

Emily Kam Kngwarray, Tate Modern, London, 10 July 2025 - 11 January 2026; Foundation Opale, Switzerland, 14 June - 15 November 2026

Publications

Margo Neale, Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkere, Paintings from Utopia, Macmillan Publishers, Melbourne, 1998, cover illustration; p. 1, cat. 78, pl. 2 (illus.) and p. 53, fig. 53 (illus. detail)

Jennifer Isaacs, et al., Emily Kngwarreye Paintings, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1998, p. 32

Margo Neale and Benita Tunks (eds.), Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Tokyo: Yomiuri Shinbun Tokyo Honsha, 2008, (Japanese edition), p.36, 89; Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2008 (English edition), p.180 - 181 (illus.) and a detail on p.226

Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, 2023 (illus.)

Kelli Cole and Hetti Perkins, Emily Kam Kngwarray, National Gallery of Australia, 2023, p. 104-105 

Kelli Cole and Hetti Perkins, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Tate Enterprises Ltd, London, 2025

"Untitled (Alhalkerre), 1995, is reductive in the use of her lexicon. Layers of broad powerful brush strokes are layered upon an ochre coloured ground, the palette simply ochre and white and variations between creating layers of ochre, burnt orange, rust and cream. It is the gesture, the way that the paint has been applied that dominates this painting. The work exudes energy and the sweeping lines express a movement that takes your eye across all parts of the canvas. Despite being a large painting, over two metres long, the arcs created by the sweep of the of the artist's outstretched arm lend the painting a human scale while describing a broad stretch of landscape. This is a striking instance of body and country becoming one; a woman drawing her country with her body's reach. Untitled (Alhalkerre) can be regarded as one of the great masterpieces in Australian Aboriginal art." (Jennifer Isaacs, et al., Emily Kngwarreye Paintings, 1998, p. 32)

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