Emily Kam Kngwarray Anmatyerr language group, circa 1914-1996
Provenance
The Artist, Commissioned by Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, September 1992, cat. no. 92I021
Private collection, Germany, acquired by a member of a travelling group of museum directors at Delmore Station in 1992
Sotheby's, New York, Aboriginal Art, 26 November - 4 December 2020, Lot 18
Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York
Exhibitions
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Literature
Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, 2023 (illus.)Untitled (Alhalkere) was created in September 1992, when the artist was 80 years old. It followed her return to Utopia after a visit to Canberra, where she had received the Australian Artists Creative Fellowship and had the chance to see her work displayed at both the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Back in her community, her artistic drive surged, and her approach shifted toward a freer, more vigorous style. She began layering sweeping brushstrokes with daubs of paint, using fluid dots and patches of color to create a rhythmic surface that pulsed above the structured foundations of her compositions.