Emily Kam Kngwarray Anmatyerr language group, circa 1914-1996
Untitled – Alhalkere, 1992
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
59 ½ x 47 ½ inches (151.1 x 120.6 cm)
© Emily Kam Kngwarray/Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2026
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, 15-20 May 2023
Approaching Abstraction: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Across Australia, Asia Society, New York, 18 September 2024-5 January 2025
Publications
Merlino, Vanessa, and Luke Scholes. 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art. UOVO, 2023 (illus.)"During the early 1990s, Kngwarraye developed a painting technique that literally embodied her sense of the explosive, yet ordered, rhythms of the natural world: she energetically worked her canvas with fluid dots or blobs of colour that formed a pulsing layer over the 'mapped-out' underpinnings of her paintings."
— Deborah Edwards, Tradition Today: Indigenous Art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2014
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Alhalkere - Old Man Emu with Babies, 1989 -
Emily Kam Kngwarray, Merne Everything VI, 1994
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled, 1990
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled (Alhalkere), 1990
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Song of the Emu, 1991
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled (Alhalkerre), 1995
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Mourning, 1991
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled (Alhalker), 1993
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Kame Yam Awelye, 1996
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled, 1996
