Australian Indigenous Fine Art

Emily Kame Kngwarreye - My Country - Final Series, 1996

Rover Joolama Thomas - Canning Stock Route, c.1984

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Australian Indigenous Fine Art

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Welcome to this special Cooee Art MarketPlace Indigenous Fine Art offering for 2020. The sale will include 62 works from the collection of one of Aboriginal art?s greatest promoters and supporters, the incomparable owner of the former Aboriginal Gallery of Deamings, Hank Ebes. The estimated value of the 107 artworks collected for this auction is $1,800,000 ? 2,500,000. Hank Ebes crashed into the burgeoning Indigenous art scene in Melbourne in the early 1990s. A former crop duster and commercial pilot, he started collecting Aboriginal art after flying his own plane to Alice Springs and buying 120 paintings on the spot from Don Holt at Delmore Downs, before falling out with the cattle station owner come art dealer. He went on to specialise in art from the Eastern Desert, employing at one time, three ?field officers? before providing Fred Torres at Dacou Gallery with the financial backing to hold workshops ?on country? with Torres? mother Barbara Weir, grandmother Minnie Pwerle, and auntie Emily Kngwarreye. During one such workshop Emily painted her masterpiece Earth?s Creation I, which Cooee Art MarketPlace sold in 2017 for $2.1 million, the highest price ever achieved for the work of any Australian female artist. This sale includes works by Emily Kngwarreye and other Utopia artists, as well as 40 paintings depicting different sites and aspects of the Tingari Dreaming with examples by the Pintupi Nine, the last remnant group to abandon their nomadic lives in the Western Desert in 1984. You can access the Cooee Art MarketPLace dedicated auction platform where you can bid live online, leave absentee bids or simply just watch the auction at: auction.cooeeart.com.au

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Cory Warkatu Surprise - Pitill Jila, 2007: Cory Surprise was a highly regarded, award-winning contemporary artist from Fitzroy Crossing known for her uninhibited painting style. She was born at Tapu, her father's country, in the Great Sandy

0001: Cory Warkatu Surprise - Pitill Jila, 2007Est. A$2,500-A$4,500Lot Closed

Sally (Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda) Gabori - The Hunting: Sally Gabori first picked up a paintbrush in 2005, at 81 years of age. The Lardil people in the Kaiadilt community of equatorial Queensland had little exposure to fine art, or really any comparable

0002: Sally (Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda) Gabori - The HuntingEst. A$6,000-A$8,000Lot Closed

Kathleen Petyarre - Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming,: Katheen Petyarre is best known for her finely wrought, intimate renditions of the vast landscapes in the Eastern Desert. These were created during the epic journeys of her Dreaming ancestor and

0003: Kathleen Petyarre - Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming,Est. A$3,000-A$5,000Lot Closed

Bill Tjapaltjarri Whiskey - Rockholes Near the Olgas,: Bill Whiskeyâ€™s bold bright painting style reflected his indomitable spirit. He did not begin painting on canvas until entering the last four years of his life at 84 years of age, by which time

0004: Bill Tjapaltjarri Whiskey - Rockholes Near the Olgas,Est. A$4,000-A$6,000Lot Closed

Queenie McKenzie Nakara - Texas Hills (Carboyd Ranges),: Queenie McKenzie was born c.1930 at the Old Texas station, on the Ord River in the north-west of Western Australia. As a young girl, she cooked for the stockmen, tending and riding horses and

0005: Queenie McKenzie Nakara - Texas Hills (Carboyd Ranges),Est. A$4,000-A$6,000Lot Closed

Trevor Nickolls - Hippy Picnic, 2006: A solid grounding in the theory of Western art put Trevor Nickolls in a unique position when, towards the end of his post-graduate degree, he had a chance encounter with Papunya artist Dinny Nolan.

0006: Trevor Nickolls - Hippy Picnic, 2006Est. A$5,500-A$6,500Lot Closed

Minnie Pwerle - Awelye Atnwengerrp, 2004: The manner in which Minnie Pwerle created her works was the result of an urgency to reconnect to the past and keep the Dreaming a living reality. In painting after painting, she depicted the body

0007: Minnie Pwerle - Awelye Atnwengerrp, 2004Est. A$8,000-A$12,000Lot Closed

Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Untitled, 1993: Toward the end of 1991, womenâ€™s Awelye ceremonies were being held in Utopia and the surrounding region. Emilyâ€™s work became more expressionistic, with the graphic under-layer of linear

0008: Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Untitled, 1993Est. A$40,000-A$60,000Lot Closed

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa - Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming at: Ronnie Tjampitjinpa walked with his family out of the West Australian desert and settled into life in the tumultuous and crowded settlement of Papunya at 13 years of age. He was in his late 20s at

0009: Ronnie Tjampitjinpa - Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming atEst. A$1,800-A$2,500Lot Closed

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi - Tingari Dreaming Cycle, 2004: Nancy Nungurrayi was born at Maya, north west of Kintore around 1935. As a small child she lived with her parents at Wala Wala, west of the Kiwirrkurra Community. She lived in this area after she was

0010: Nancy Ross Nungurrayi - Tingari Dreaming Cycle, 2004Est. A$3,000-A$4,000Lot Closed

Tatali Nangala - Women's Dreaming at Tika Tika, 1998: Tatali Nangala was born west of Kintore and moved into Papunya during the 1960s where she later married Western Desert painting founder Charlie Tararu. She began painting during the women's workshop

0011: Tatali Nangala - Women's Dreaming at Tika Tika, 1998Est. A$2,000-A$2,200Lot Closed

Walangkura Napanangka - Women's Dreaming at Marrapinti,: As one of the last generation to remember a childhood lived in the desert, Walangkura Napanangka travelled by foot over the hundreds of kilometres from her remote desert home before settling at

0012: Walangkura Napanangka - Women's Dreaming at Marrapinti,Est. A$3,000-A$5,000Lot Closed

Kitty Kantilla - Jilamara, 2000: Kitty Kantillaâ€™s art, and indeed all Tiwi art, is informed by the ornate body painting of the Pukumani ceremony. What makes the art of Kitty Kantilla and those of her generation so inherently

0013: Kitty Kantilla - Jilamara, 2000Est. A$3,500-A$6,500Lot Closed

Old Tutuma Tjapangati - Untitled (Tingari Design), 1977: Eager to begin translating his Dreamings onto board right from the inception of the community at Papunya, Old Tutuma Tjapangati was one of the original Papunya Tula artists in the early 1970s. His

0014: Old Tutuma Tjapangati - Untitled (Tingari Design), 1977Est. A$35,000-A$45,000Lot Closed

Rover Joolama Thomas - Baragu Country, 1985: Rover Thomas was born in Walmatjarri-Kukaja country near Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route. He lived a traditional bush life until he was taken to Billiluna Station at 11 years of age, where he was

0015: Rover Joolama Thomas - Baragu Country, 1985Est. A$70,000-A$90,000Lot Closed

Freddie Timms - Woondawoon - Charlie Bight, 2000: Freddie Timms began painting in 1986, inspired by the elder artists already painting at Frog Hollow, a small outstation attached to the community at Warmun, Turkey Creek. Born at Police Hole c.1946,

0016: Freddie Timms - Woondawoon - Charlie Bight, 2000Est. A$7,000-A$9,000Lot Closed

Bill Tjapaltjarri Whiskey - Rockholes and Country near: Bill Whiskey did not begin painting on canvas until entering the last four years of his life at 84 years of age, by which time he was widely renowned as a powerful healer and keeper of sacred

0017: Bill Tjapaltjarri Whiskey - Rockholes and Country nearEst. A$25,000-A$35,000Lot Closed

Paddy Bedford - Untitled, 1998: Characteristic of Paddy Bedford's painting style are richly ochred surfaces with minimal arrangements of circular shapes delineated by white dots. Though important Dreamings such as the Emu, Turkey,

0018: Paddy Bedford - Untitled, 1998Est. A$6,000-A$10,000Lot Closed

Artist Once Known - Root Plant, 1975: This early Papunya Board was collected by the second art adviser in Papunya, Peter Fannin in 1975. While the artist is unknown, the subject recorded on the back of the painting indicates the image

0019: Artist Once Known - Root Plant, 1975Est. A$2,000-A$2,500Lot Closed

Johnny Warnangkula Tjupurrula - Women's Dreaming , 1975: Johnny Warangkula was born at Mintjilpirri, north west of the Kangaroo Dreaming site of Ilpili soakage. He first encountered â€˜white fellasâ€™ at just 12 years of age. He moved to Papunya

0020: Johnny Warnangkula Tjupurrula - Women's Dreaming , 1975Est. A$3,000-A$5,000Lot Closed

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Menâ€™s Initiation Ceremony: Turkey Tolson was born about eight kilometres east of Haasts Bluff in the early 1940s. After years working in the Haasts Bluff stock camp droving cattle to Mount Leibig, he underwent initiation into

0021: Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Menâ€™s Initiation CeremonyEst. A$2,500-A$4,500Lot Closed

Billy Joongoorra Thomas - Waarla, 2000: Billy Thomas began painting on canvas in 1995, after he approached Waringarri Arts in Kununurra to supply him with painting materials. Prior to that, he did not belong to any community of artists. He

0022: Billy Joongoorra Thomas - Waarla, 2000Est. A$6,000-A$8,000Lot Closed

Nyurapayia (Mrs Bennett) Nampitjinpa - The Travels of a: Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa was born in Pitjantjatjara country, near the site of today's Docker River community. She saw no white men until she was in her teens and spent much of her childhood at

0023: Nyurapayia (Mrs Bennett) Nampitjinpa - The Travels of aEst. A$6,000-A$9,000Lot Closed

Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Awelye, 1993: Emily's middle name, Kame, is taken from the yam Dreaming site at Alhalkere. The nutritional value of the yam is hidden underground, in the swollen roots and their pod-like attachments which are

0024: Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Awelye, 1993Est. A$40,000-A$60,000Lot Closed

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