Lucy Yukenbarri Napanangka (c. 1934-2003) Original Aboriginal Painting 'Marpu Rockhole' 150cm x 100cm
Lucy Yukenbarri Napanangka (c. 1934-2003) Original Aboriginal Painting 'Marpu Rockhole' 150cm x 100cm
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Lucy Yukenbarri Napanangka (c. 1934-2003) Large Original Aboriginal Painting 'Marpu Rockhole' 150cm x 100cm
A large original investment artwork by one of Australia's most distinctive aboriginal artists, Lucy Yukenbarri Napanangka (c. 1934-2003). Titled ‘Marpu Rockhole’ (1999), the artwork features bright colours in synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen. Inscribed verso ‘Lucy Yukenbarri, Warlayirti Artists Cat. No. 422/99’. Accompanied with a COA from Cooee Art, NSW (now Art Leven). Prior sale at $8,800. Provenance: Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation, Balgo W.A, Cooee Art Code 1264. Menzies Auctions Lot 14, Private Collection, Sydney. The artwork is excellent condition, stretched and ready to hang.
Dimensions
Image size: 150cm x 100cm
Bio
Lucy Yukenbarri, an Aboriginal artist from Balgo Hills in Western Australia was a respected senior custodian with a vast knowledge of the waterholes in the Great Sandy Desert. She began painting in 1989. Lucy’s early works followed standard Balgo Hills methods of forming lines by means of rows of dotting and of outlining icons in a similar way. A quietly creative artist, she then moved to another technique using single colour fields of dotting, later going on to a next step of painting her dots so closely together that they converged, creating dense masses of pigment on the surface of the canvas. This, together with her exploration of the visual possibilities of black icons for waterholes and soakwaters and of dark green and blue, gave her work a distinctive style, producing effects unique in desert Aboriginal art. As a result, her work became sought after in the marketplace. Yukenbarri’s later works were boldly covered in thick paint. She concentrated on painting the soaks and rock holes of her country, also the numerous types of bush food including Kantilli (bush raisins) and Pura (bush tomato).
She laughingly described herself as a “wild one” in her youth, running away from ceremonial business into the bush. There is also the story of the long walk in from the desert to the mission when they would stop at the wells along the track to pump for water. Once at the mission, she helped make the bread and later began painting. She travelled extensively with her painting (Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Canberra, Perth, Darwin, Kununurra), however preferred to stay in Balgo with her family. Lucy Yukenbarri held many ceremonial responsibilities in the keeping of traditional law.
Collections
ArtBank, Sydney
Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Queensland
Campbelltown City Art Gallery
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
The Holmes a Court Collection
Laverty Collection
Kluge Ruhe Collection, USA
Parliament House Art Collection
Alice Springs Art Foundation, Araluen Centre
Ken Thompson and Pierre Marecaux Collection
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