Emily Kam Kngwarray Anmatyerr language group, circa 1914-1996
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, Melbourne, 25 March 2009, lot. no. 56
Private Collection, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, The Ainsworth Collection - Contemporary & Aboriginal Art; Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, 26 March 2014, lot. no. 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, cat. Y-5
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, 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
Literature
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)
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