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Nov. 12, 2024
SUSIE BOOTJA BOOTJA NAPALTJARRI, KANINGARRA, 2001
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
SUSIE BOOTJA BOOTJA NAPALTJARRI c. 1935-2003 KANINGARRA, 2001 acrylic on linen 120 x 80 cm; 122.5 x 82.5 cm (framed) artwork cataloguing details verso PROVENANCE Warlayirti Artists, WA Cat No. 720/01 Private collection, Vic Private collection, ACT Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Warlayirti Artists ©Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri / Copyright Agency, 2024 Susie walked in from the desert as a teenager to Tjumundora, one of the early mission sites, and then moved to the old mission at Balgo Hills in WA in 1946. where she worked in the kitchen making bread and helping serve food to the dormitory children. There she met her first husband and had her first child, Lucy. Her husband was killed on a mustering trip due to intertribal conflict and left her a widow. Later she eloped with Mick Gill Tjakamarra, to whom she was devoted for the rest of her life, and had another six children. She had a vibrant and colourful personality and was respected for her knowledge of the law and ceremony pertaining to the fresh water spring, Kurtal. She liked to relate stories about playing at the waterhole in the northern reaches of the Canning Stock Route, where she spent her youth. Susie was one of the first women painters at Balgo Hills. Her eldest son, Matthew Gill, started up the Art Centre in Balgo Hills in 1985 with Sister Alice Dempsey from the St John’s Adult Education Centre. Suzie was renowned for her ability to intermix western and traditional representations of country (hills, trees, snakes) along with a lively use of colour, especially bright greens, pinks and sky blues. In 1996 she began a series of innovative dotted colour field works which became her favoured style in the years immediately preceding her death in 2003. This piece is a fine example of an Australian Aboriginal artwork.
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art)
Mar. 08, 2022
Susie Napaltjarri Bootja Bootja - My Country - Kaningarra Waterhole - Living Water, 2002
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
Susie Bootja Bootja was a larger than life character whose artistic practice epitomised the Balgo womenâs panache for colour and experimentation. Like all Kukatja people, she inherited ownership rights over specific sites and ancestral designs from both her fatherâs and her motherâs side. The depiction of waterholes by both men and women painters at Balgo is a vital element in the transfer of knowledge between the generations. The location of permanent waterholes (living water) is considered bital knowledge in this often harsh and forbidding landscape. The preciousness of water in the arid desert landscape and its spiritual essence, was a primary theme in the works of both Susie Bootja Bootjaâs and her husband Mick Gill Tjakamarra, an important rainmaker. In this experimental glass sculpture, Susie has depicted the Kaningarra waterhole where she spent her youth.
Cooee Art
Jun. 08, 2021
Susie Napaltjarri Bootja Bootja - Kaningarra, 2000
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
Cooee Art Indigenous Fine Art Auction "Susie Bootja Bootja was a vibrant and colourful personality, respected for her knowledge of the law and ceremony pertaining to Kurtal, a fresh water spring. As a child, before contact with white people, she played at the Kangingarra waterhole, situated in the northern reaches of the Canning Stock Route. She walked in from the desert as a teenager to Tjumundora, one of the early mission sites. Susie was one of the first women painters at Balgo Hills, renowned for use of both Western and traditional imagery, including trees and snakes, along with a lively use of bright colours. Her innovative dotted colour fields began in 1996. Until her death in 2003, her works were filled with her exuberant personality and joy for life.+IB0 Contact Cooee Art for more information on this Aboriginal artwork.
Cooee Art
Dec. 07, 2020
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (b.c.1932-2003) Balgo Hills Rainmaking Rituals 1990 Acrylic on canvas
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (b.c.1932-2003) Balgo Hills Rainmaking Rituals 1990 Acrylic on canvas Warlayirti Art Certificate of Authenticity Cat. no. 350/9 121 x 61 cm
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Oct. 20, 2020
Susie Napaltjarri Bootja Bootja - Untitled (Tjaluwon), 1993
Est: $3,500 - $4,500
Susie walked in from the desert as a teenager to Tjumundora, one of the early mission sites, and then moved to the old mission at Balgo Hills in WA in 1946. where she worked in the kitchen making bread and helping serve food to the dormitory children. There she met her first husband and had her first child, Lucy. Her husband was killed on a mustering trip due to intertribal conflict and left her a widow. Later she eloped with Mick Gill Tjakamarra, to whom she was devoted for the rest of her life, and had another six children. She had a vibrant and colourful personality and was respected for her knowledge of the law and ceremony pertaining to the fresh water spring, Kurtal. She liked to relate stories about playing at the waterhole in the northern reaches of the Canning Stock Route, where she spent her youth. Susie was one of the first women painters at Balgo Hills. Her eldest son, Matthew Gill, started up the Art Centre in Balgo Hills in 1985 with Sister Alice Dempsey from the St Johnâs Adult Education Centre. Suzie was renowned for her ability to intermix western and traditional representations of country (hills, trees, snakes) along with a lively use of colour, especially bright greens, pinks and sky blues. In 1996 she began a series of innovative dotted colour field works which became her favoured style in the years immediately preceding her death in 2003.
Cooee Art
Sep. 14, 2020
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (b.c.1932-2003) Balgo Hills Rainmaking Rituals 1990 Acrylic on canvas
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (b.c.1932-2003) Balgo Hills Rainmaking Rituals 1990 Acrylic on canvas Warlayirti Art Certificate of Authenticity Cat. no. 350/9 121 x 61 cm
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
May. 04, 2020
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (b.c.1932-2003) Balgo Hills Rainmaking Rituals 1990 Acrylic on canvas
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (b.c.1932-2003) Balgo Hills Rainmaking Rituals 1990 Acrylic on canvas Warlayirti Art Certificate of Authenticity Cat. no. 350/9 121 x 61 cm
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Mar. 09, 2020
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (b.c.1932-2003) Balgo Hills Rainmaking Rituals 1990 Acrylic on canvas
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (b.c.1932-2003) Balgo Hills Rainmaking Rituals 1990 Acrylic on canvas Warlayirti Art Certificate of Authenticity Cat. no. 350/9 121 x 61 cm
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Apr. 04, 2019
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (1935 - 2003) - Untitled, 1995 acrylic on canvas
Est: $500 - $700
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (1935 - 2003) Untitled, 1995 acrylic on canvas 75.5 x 51cm Palya cat no. PALYA-2557 Warlayirti Artists, centre 358/95 Area: Balgo Hills, Tanami Desert, Western Australia
Lawsons
Mar. 30, 2014
SUSAN GIBSON NAPALTJARRI "Women's Business" Acrylic on linen
Est: $300 - $500
SUSAN GIBSON NAPALTJARRI "Women's Business" Acrylic on linen Comes with Certificate of Authenticity Painted 2013 Artwork is ready to hang 72cm x 70cm
Ozbid Auctions
Mar. 26, 2014
SUSIE BOOTJA BOOTJA NAPALTJARRI c1935 - 2003, KANINGARRA, 2000, synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
SUSIE BOOTJA BOOTJA NAPALTJARRI (c1935 - 2003), KANINGARRA, 2000, synthetic polymer paint on linen SIGNED: inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists DIMENSIONS: 149.0 x 75.5 cm PROVENANCE: Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 209/00) Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Private collection, United States of America Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 24 March 2010, lot 113 The K.D.H. Ainsworth Collection, Queensland NOTES: This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Warlayirti Artists which states: 'This painting depicts some aspects of Susie's traditional country. This country is known as Kaningarra, named after the tjumu, or soakwater which is featured in the centre of the painting. Kaningarra is in the northern part of the Great Sandy Desert of WA. The two black U shapes are Susie's parents, camping by the tjumu. Surrounding them, and represented by the small dots are tjunda, or bush onions. The grid-like shape along the edges of the painting represented tjirripadja, or bush carrots; both of these important food sources are abundant at Kaningarra.'
Deutscher and Hackett
Oct. 15, 2012
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri circa 1932-2003 TJALUWON (SOUTH OF BALGO HILLS) (1993) synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri circa 1932-2003 TJALUWON (SOUTH OF BALGO HILLS) (1993) synthetic polymer paint on linen 75 X 50CM PROVENANCE Painted at Wirrimanu, Balgo Hills Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia (stock 47/93) Private Collection, Queensland This painting is sold with a Warlayirti Artists certificate PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, QUEENSLAND
Smith & Singer
Jul. 21, 2010
SUSIE BOOTJA BOOTJA NAPALTJARRI Untitled, 1997
Est: $2,600 - $3,000
SUSIE BOOTJA BOOTJA NAPALTJARRI Untitled, 1997 synthetic polymer paint on linen 91.5 x 61.5 cm
Deutscher and Hackett