Australian Indigenous Fine Art

Emily Kame Kngwarreye - My Country - Final Series, 1996

Rover Joolama Thomas - Canning Stock Route, c.1984

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Paddington, Australia

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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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Dorothy Napangardi - Mina Mina, 2006: Dorothy Napangardi began creating works tracing the grid-like patterns of the salt encrustations on the Mina Mina clay pans in 1997, marking a significant artistic shift in her work. Over the

0049: Dorothy Napangardi - Mina Mina, 2006Est. A$18,000-A$22,000Lot Closed

Minnie Pwerle - Awelye, 1999: Minnie Pwerle, whose husband was the brother of famed artist Emily Kngwarreye, began painting her country Atnwengerrp and its associated Dreamings in earnest at 77 years of age in 1999, three years

0050: Minnie Pwerle - Awelye, 1999Est. A$9,000-A$12,000Lot Closed

Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Emily's Country, 1994: In this major work, created with a thick-textured fusion of purple, yellow, pink and blue paints, Emily Kngwarreye provides a panorama of the desert's food sources after rain with laser-like

0051: Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Emily's Country, 1994Est. A$260,000-A$320,000Lot Closed

Barbara Weir - My Motherâ€™s Country, c.1998: Barbara Weir was born at Bundy River Station, Utopia. Her country is Atnwengerrrp and her language is Anmatyerre and Alyawarr. At the age of nine, Barbara became one of the Stolen Generation, taken

0052: Barbara Weir - My Motherâ€™s Country, c.1998Est. A$12,000-A$15,000Lot Closed

Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Alalgura Country, 1993: Emily Kame Kngwarreye is widely regarded as Australia's most important and successful Aboriginal artist. Her remarkable career lasted just seven years prior to her death in 1996 at 86 years of age.

0053: Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Alalgura Country, 1993Est. A$45,000-A$65,000Lot Closed

The Four Sisters - Minnie, Molly, Emily & Galya Pwerle: Though Minnie Pwerle began painting in 1999, she joined her sisters in creating collaborative works when Emily, Galya, and Molly began painting in 2005. Minnie lived at Antwengerrp and could speak

0054: The Four Sisters - Minnie, Molly, Emily & Galya PwerleEst. A$9,000-A$12,000Lot Closed

Minnie Pwerle - Awelye Atnwengerrp, 1996: The manner in which Minnie Pwerle created her works was the result of an urgency to reconnect to the past and to keep the Dreaming a living reality. Painting after painting depicted the body designs

0055: Minnie Pwerle - Awelye Atnwengerrp, 1996Est. A$7,000-A$9,000Lot Closed

Molly Pwerle - Aldappa Dance Lines, 2005: Molly Pwerleâ€™s country is Atnwengerrp and her language is Anmatyerre and Alyawarr. She began painting during a workshop held at Ultja station in 2004. Mollyâ€™s extended family are all

0056: Molly Pwerle - Aldappa Dance Lines, 2005Est. A$4,500-A$6,500Lot Closed

Emily Pwerle - Body Paint Design & Desert Grasses, 2005: Emily Pwerle began painting during a workshop held at Ultja station in 2004. Her extended family are all artists including her sister the late Minnie Pwerle, and her sisters Molly and Gayla, and

0057: Emily Pwerle - Body Paint Design & Desert Grasses, 2005Est. A$5,000-A$7,000Lot Closed

Galya Pwerle - Awelye Atnwengerrp, Women's Sacred: Galya Pwerle began painting during a workshop held at Ultja station in 2004. Her extended family are all artists including her sisters the late Minnie Pwerle, Emily and Molly, and Minnie's daughter

0058: Galya Pwerle - Awelye Atnwengerrp, Women's SacredEst. A$4,500-A$6,500Lot Closed

Abie Kemarre Loy - Sand Hill Country, 2013: Abie Loy was born on Utopia station, about 270 km north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Her mother, Margaret Loy Pula, won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting at the Art Gallery

0059: Abie Kemarre Loy - Sand Hill Country, 2013Est. A$4,000-A$6,000Lot 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

0060: Kathleen Petyarre - Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming -Est. A$6,000-A$8,000Lot Closed

Eubena Nampitjin - Pankapirni, 2003: Eubena Nampitjin began painting in 1988 alongside her second husband Wimmitji Tjapangarti. Their early works portrayed Dreaming sites, country and ancestral travels in the most intimate cartographic

0061: Eubena Nampitjin - Pankapirni, 2003Est. A$6,000-A$9,000Lot Closed

Walangkura Napanangka - Wirrulnga (Two Rockholes), 1999: 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

0062: Walangkura Napanangka - Wirrulnga (Two Rockholes), 1999Est. A$7,000-A$9,000Lot Closed

Jack Britten - The Kawariny (Bungle Bungles), 2000: Jack Britten was born and spent his childhood at Tickelara Station in the north-west of Australia, at a time when many Gija people were massacred during the gold rush at Hallâ€™s Creek and

0063: Jack Britten - The Kawariny (Bungle Bungles), 2000Est. A$4,000-A$6,000Lot Closed

Queenie McKenzie Nakara - The Three Wise Men Visit: 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 began her life of cooking for the stockmen, tending and riding

0064: Queenie McKenzie Nakara - The Three Wise Men VisitEst. A$25,000-A$35,000Lot Closed

Rover Joolama Thomas - Canning Stock Route, c.1984: 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

0065: Rover Joolama Thomas - Canning Stock Route, c.1984Est. A$70,000-A$90,000Lot Closed

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri - Corkwood Dreaming, 1996: Clifford Possum began his artistic career in the 1950s at Glen Helen, when he found that he earned more pay and lived under better conditions while producing carvings for the developing tourist

0066: Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri - Corkwood Dreaming, 1996Est. A$18,000-A$22,000Lot Closed

Queenie McKenzie Nakara - Mook Mook Owls with Young,: The Mook Mook Owls, mother and baby, are found in a cave at the Blue Tongue Lizard Dreaming site, adjacent to Pompei Pillar near the turnoff to the Argyle Diamond Mine. The cave site is called Tunnel

0067: Queenie McKenzie Nakara - Mook Mook Owls with Young,Est. A$6,000-A$8,000Lot Closed

Hector Jandanay - Untitled, 1987: At the time of his death in 2007, Hector Jandany had been creating his singular artworks for nearly 30 years, having become the oldest member of the Warmun artists at Turkey Creek. His decision to

0068: Hector Jandanay - Untitled, 1987Est. A$4,000-A$6,000Lot Closed

Paddy Wainburranga Fordham - Balangjalngalan, Spirit: During his lifetime, renowned artist, dancer, didgeridoo player, and storyteller Paddy Fordham Wainburranga embodied the living history of the people of Australiaâ€™s far north. He began working

0069: Paddy Wainburranga Fordham - Balangjalngalan, SpiritEst. A$3,000-A$5,000Lot Closed

Billy Nolan Tjapangati - Tingari Dreaming, 2003: Born at Nyinna Nyinna near Docker River, Billy grew up traversing the vast reaches of Pintupi territory across the WA border. He came east by donkey in one of the early Pintupi migrations. He had

0070: Billy Nolan Tjapangati - Tingari Dreaming, 2003Est. A$7,000-A$9,000Lot Closed

Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi - Tingari at: Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi was born west of Lake Macdonald and walked into Papunya in 1962 with his wife Ningura Napurrula and their injured son Mawitji. As one of the inventors of the

0071: Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi - Tingari atEst. A$7,000-A$9,000Lot Closed

Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi - Tingari, 1994: Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi was born west of Lake Macdonald and walked into Papunya in 1962 with his wife Ningura Napurrula and their injured son Mawitji. As one of the inventors of the

0072: Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi - Tingari, 1994Est. A$6,000-A$9,000Lot Closed

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