UNTITLED (GIDJA COUNTRY), 1991

Modern + Contemporary Art
Melbourne
13 June 2018
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© courtesy of The Estate of Queenie McKenzie
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QUEENIE McKENZIE NAKARRA

(c.1925 – 1998)
UNTITLED (GIDJA COUNTRY), 1991

natural earth pigments and synthetic binders on canvas

60.0 x 80.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist’s name, size and Waringarri Aboriginal Arts cat. AP3580 and S-3370

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $23,180 (inc. BP) in Auction 54 - 13 June 2018, Melbourne
Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra, Western Australia
Private collection, Canberra
Sotheby's, Sydney, 25 July 2005, lot 42
Private collection, New South Wales
Private collection, Melbourne

Catalogue text

Queenie Mckenzie Nakarra lived and worked in Warmun, Western Australia
language group: Gija

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Gifted: Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2004 North by North-West: Contemporary Indigenous Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2004 EXPLAINED, A closer look at Aboriginal art, AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, Netherlands
2002 Native Title Business - Contemporary Indigenous Art, Queensland Museum, Brisbane and touring nationally
2000 Rover & Queenie, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1994 Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1994 Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1993 Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1993 10th National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1992 9th National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1991 Aboriginal Women Painters, Art Gallery of New South Wales and touring
1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1991 Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and touring

SELECTED LITERATURE
Field, J.J., Written in the Land: The Life of Queenie McKenzie, Melbourne Books, Melbourne, 2008

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, Netherlands
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
British Museum, London, UK
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane