Important, Huge Australian Aboriginal Painting, Katanari Nancy Tjilya 2005, NICE

Description: Important, Huge Australian Aboriginal Painting,by Katanari Nancy Tjilya Burton (b.1939), titled Minyma Wampataku Ankupai ("Women Out Hunting"). Painted in 2005, 48 X 60 inches, synthetic polymer paint on linen, from Tjala Arts, Amata Community, South Australia, cat. no. 903-05. This painting was acquired from the above by The Kelton Foundation in Santa Monica, which held one of the most important collections of Australian aboriginal art in the world until it began to be unwound after Richard Kelton's death in 2019. An important elder in her community, Katanari is known for her intricate, fascinating paintings that portray her people's lands and customs, and this prime example was chosen by Richard Kelton for his collection. Excellent bright, undamaged, with typical discolorations and a few rough edges where the canvas was wrapped on the stretcher. A few smudges here and there, as typical, but nice dense colors. Unstretched, this will ship safely in a strong tube.Katanari Nancy Tjilya Burton was born in c. 1939 and originates from the Tjurna Homlands and lives in Amata Community in South Australia. She is a Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara speaker from the traditional lands of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (commonly referred to as the APY Lands). Katanari has been a practicing artist for many years, experimenting with ideas and the traditional stories from her Dreamings. She is both a painter as well as a skilled weaver with an eye for detail.Katanari is a regular artist for Minymaku Arts and has taken an active role in promoting culturally enriched lives for her family and kin living in isolated communities such as Amata. In 1995 she also began working with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers which is an Aboriginal women’s fibre art social enterprise which started in the Central and Western Deserts of Australia through the local women’s council. The Tjanpi Desert Weavers have gone on to create workshops and performances around Australia. Most notably their entry into the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, which saw them win first prize for their creation of a Toyota Troop Carrier made from natural fibres.Katanari’s artworks have been exhibited in group exhibitions around Australia and one of her paintings is held in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s collection. The Kelton Foundation, also known as the Richard Kelton Foundation, in Santa Monica, California, was founded in 1983 as a private charitable organization by real estate developer Richard Kelton, who died in 2019.[1][2] Its main activities comprise "ethnographic, scientific and artistic investigations of humankind and the sea",[3] and it holds a vast collection of artworks, known as the Kelton Foundation Collection, or Kelton Collection.Kelton was particularly interested in maritime art of the Pacific region, China Trade art, ethnographic materials, and Aboriginal Australian art, and travelled and collected works until around 2007. He mounted his first exhibition in 1980 at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, believed to be the first Aboriginal Australian art exhibition in the United States.[1] The foundation mounts exhibitions, lends its objects and art to other institutions, and provides assistance to scholars undertaking related research.[3]The Kelton Collection has held works by contemporary Indigenous Australian artists including Takariya Napaltjarri,[4] Daisy Leura Nakamarra,[5] Minnie Pwerle[6] and Dhuwarrwarr Marika.[7] Kelton had a particularly close affinity with Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, but many many other artists are represented, from Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands, the eastern Kimberley region of Western Australia, and elsewhere.[1]In December 2020, Kelton's estate sold more than 250 works to Swiss collector Bruno Raschle for around US$10m. The Foundation continues its philanthropic connection to Australia, focusing on First Nations health and education projects.[1]

Price: 945 USD

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