Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, 2008

94 x 92 cm

Est. $6,000 – $9,000

Hammer $4,800

Provenance: Collected Alice Springs, 2008 Private Collection, France Private Collection, Denmark
Artwork story: Kathleen Petyarre painted the Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming throughout her life. The thorny devil lizard - her totem - is associated with a vast expanse of desert country, and her paintings evoke the lizard's slow, meandering path across the land as it absorbs and transmits ancestral knowledge. Her dotting technique is meticulous and atmospheric, building luminous fields that echo the shimmer of heat, sand, and spiritual presence. These paintings are not maps in the Western sense; they are topographies of ceremony, of movement, and of the layered knowledge embedded in Country. Kathleen Petyarre's work is now held in major collections internationally. Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming remains one of the most significant Dreamings in the desert canon?highly desirable for collectors drawn to works of meditative scale and ancestral precision.

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Sale 1 · Lot 6

c.1940 – 2018

Region: Eastern Desert
Community: Atnangkere
Language group: Alyawarre (Alyawarr); Anmatyerr (Anmatyerre) – Eastern Anmatyerre

94 x 92 cm

Est. $6,000 – $9,000

Hammer $4,800

Provenance: Collected Alice Springs, 2008 Private Collection, France Private Collection, Denmark
Artwork story: Kathleen Petyarre painted the Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming throughout her life. The thorny devil lizard - her totem - is associated with a vast expanse of desert country, and her paintings evoke the lizard's slow, meandering path across the land as it absorbs and transmits ancestral knowledge. Her dotting technique is meticulous and atmospheric, building luminous fields that echo the shimmer of heat, sand, and spiritual presence. These paintings are not maps in the Western sense; they are topographies of ceremony, of movement, and of the layered knowledge embedded in Country. Kathleen Petyarre's work is now held in major collections internationally. Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming remains one of the most significant Dreamings in the desert canon?highly desirable for collectors drawn to works of meditative scale and ancestral precision.