Elizabeth Nungurrayi Nyumi

Lot 154: ELIZABETH NYUMI NUNGURRAYI (1947 - ) - Food gathering at Wirripi, 1999

Name: ELIZABETH NYUMI NUNGURRAYI (1947 - ) - Food gathering at Wirripi, 1999
Brand: Lawsons
SKU: 4zvxkz5z5k

Est: $40,000 AUD - $50,000 AUD

LawsonsAnnandale, AustraliaNovember 22, 2006

Item Overview

Description

ELIZABETH NYUMI NUNGURRAYI (1947 - )
Food gathering at Wirripi, 1999
synthetic polymer paint on linen
180 x 120 cm

Provenance: Warlayirti Artists: Cat. no.755/99B Private Collection, Qld Sold with original art centre documentation Born in 1947, Elizabeth Nyumi's early years were spent some three hundred kilometres south of Balgo near Jupiter Well. While she began painting in 1988 in a similar in style to other female Balgo painters, her work gave way to a more textured surface in 1995. Nyumi's style became looser and more vibrant and by 1999 when this painting was created, she was painting significantly more spacious and minimal works, accompanied by a dramatic restriction in palate, in which yellow and white became dominant. This important work demonstrates the transition toward her more familiar later style. The painting depicts people gathering bush tucker in the country of her birth. It is abundant with bush foods and a variety of vegetation and dominated by sand dunes.

Artist or Maker

Elizabeth Nungurrayi Nyumi

Auction Details

Fine Aboriginal Art

Lawsons

November 22, 2006, 06:30 PM EST

1A The Crescent, Annandale, NSW, 2038, AU

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