Lot 9

The Artist
Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia, cat. no. 911/99 (accompanied by a copy of the certificate of authenticity)
Palya Art, Northern Territory
Private Collection
Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
The Le Pley Collection, Western Australia, acquired from the above in 2007

"This painting depicts the country of Elizabeth's birth and is known as Parwalla. Parwalla is located in The Great Sandy Desert. A variety of the landscape and food of the area is shown here. This is represented as the areas of smaller, usually green, dotting. There are people, the brown U-shapes, with coolamons full of food, while the majority of the painting -and the landscape it depicts -is dominated by sand dunes, or talis. A wanna, or digging stick may also be seen. The main types of bush food are minyali, a sweet berry, kantili, a bush raisin and lularrar, a seed ground up for flour for making damper."
As stated on the Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity 

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