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Welcome to this special Cooee Art MarketPlace Indigenous Fine Art offering for 2020. The sale will include 62 works from the collection of one of Aboriginal art?s greatest promoters and supporters, the incomparable owner of the former Aboriginal Gallery of Deamings, Hank Ebes. The estimated value of the 107 artworks collected for this auction is $1,800,000 ? 2,500,000. Hank Ebes crashed into the burgeoning Indigenous art scene in Melbourne in the early 1990s. A former crop duster and commercial pilot, he started collecting Aboriginal art after flying his own plane to Alice Springs and buying 120 paintings on the spot from Don Holt at Delmore Downs, before falling out with the cattle station owner come art dealer. He went on to specialise in art from the Eastern Desert, employing at one time, three ?field officers? before providing Fred Torres at Dacou Gallery with the financial backing to hold workshops ?on country? with Torres? mother Barbara Weir, grandmother Minnie Pwerle, and auntie Emily Kngwarreye. During one such workshop Emily painted her masterpiece Earth?s Creation I, which Cooee Art MarketPlace sold in 2017 for $2.1 million, the highest price ever achieved for the work of any Australian female artist. This sale includes works by Emily Kngwarreye and other Utopia artists, as well as 40 paintings depicting different sites and aspects of the Tingari Dreaming with examples by the Pintupi Nine, the last remnant group to abandon their nomadic lives in the Western Desert in 1984. You can access the Cooee Art MarketPLace dedicated auction platform where you can bid live online, leave absentee bids or simply just watch the auction at: auction.cooeeart.com.au
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Two Women Dreaming - Tingari: Turkey Tolson was born eight kilometres east of Haasts Bluff in the early 1940s. After years working in the Haasts Bluff stock camp droving cattle to Mount Leibig, he underwent initiation into
0073: Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Two Women Dreaming - TingariEst. A$3,000-A$5,000Lot Closed
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri - Bandicoot, 1995: Mick Namarari was born in sandhill country at Marnpi Rockhole south-west of the Mount Rennie Bore and was initiated in the Areyonga region. He worked in the cattle industry until he settled at
0074: Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri - Bandicoot, 1995Est. A$6,000-A$9,000Lot Closed
Malcolm Maloney Jagamarra - Men's Ceremony, 1990: Malcolm Maloney Jagamarra was born at Aningie Station near Central Mount Stuart, N.T. His father was Gerry Maloney, an Irish Stockman, and his mother was Minnie Napanangka. As a child, he travelled
0075: Malcolm Maloney Jagamarra - Men's Ceremony, 1990Est. A$4,500-A$6,500Lot Closed
Willy Tjungurrayi - Tingari Cycle, 1995: Willy Tjungurrayi grew up in the bush living a traditional life and was brought with his family to Haasts Bluff in the late 1950s when he was a young man. He moved to Papunya where he started
0076: Willy Tjungurrayi - Tingari Cycle, 1995Est. A$5,000-A$7,000Lot Closed
Timmy Payungka Tjapangati - Tingari, 1993: Timmy Payungka was one of the original group of artists who began painting for Geoff Bardon in 1971. Bardon always suspected Timmy to be a Kadaitcha Man, a secret enforcer of tribal law, because of
0077: Timmy Payungka Tjapangati - Tingari, 1993Est. A$6,000-A$8,000Lot Closed
John Kipara Tjakamarra - Tingari, 1982: John Kipara was born and grew up near Kulkuta, north of the present-day community of Kiwirrkurra. He spent his youth in salt lake country, south-west of Lake Macdonald. His family had been one of the
0078: John Kipara Tjakamarra - Tingari, 1982Est. A$7,000-A$9,000Lot Closed
Nyanyuma Napangardi - Tingari Dreaming Cycle, 2003: Nanyuma Napangati is a Pintupi senior law woman (born c.1944 in Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia) and depicts designs associated with women's ceremonies. In this work the site depicted is part of the
0079: Nyanyuma Napangardi - Tingari Dreaming Cycle, 2003Est. A$600-A$800Lot Closed
Peggy Purvis Mpetyane - Untitled (Women's Ceremony) ,: Anmatyerre artist Peggy Purvis was born at Utopia in the Northern Territory and became involved with the batik workshops organised in the late 1970s and early 1980s organised by CAAMA. These became
0080: Peggy Purvis Mpetyane - Untitled (Women's Ceremony) ,Est. A$3,000-A$4,000Lot Closed
Tjunkiya Napaltjarri & Wintjiya Napaltjarri - Women's: Tjunkiya, her sister Wintjiya and their mother Mitjili Napurrula, participated in the women's camp near Haasts Bluff in 1994 that initiated painting amongst the Pintupi women. Their individual
0081: Tjunkiya Napaltjarri & Wintjiya Napaltjarri - Women'sEst. A$7,000-A$9,000Lot Closed
Nyurapayia (Mrs Bennett) Nampitjinpa - Kapi Tjukurrpa: Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa was born in Pitjantjatjara country, near the site of today's Docker River community. She spent much of her childhood at Pangkupirri, a set of sheltered rockholes deep in the
0082: Nyurapayia (Mrs Bennett) Nampitjinpa - Kapi TjukurrpaEst. A$20,000-A$30,000Lot Closed
Yannima Tommy Watson - Irika, 2015: Pitjantjatjara elder Tommy Watson gained wide acclaim in an astonishingly short amount of time. His first works were created at the community arts centre in Irrunytju, 12 km south-west of the
0083: Yannima Tommy Watson - Irika, 2015Est. A$80,000-A$120,000Lot Closed
Emily Kame Kngwarreye - My Country, 1995: By 1992 Emily's fine dotting and symbolic underpainting gave way to works in which symbols and tracks were increasingly concealed beneath a sea of dots until eventually they were no longer evident at
0084: Emily Kame Kngwarreye - My Country, 1995Est. A$80,000-A$120,000Lot Closed
Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Alatyite (Spinifex) Dreaming,: This painting is an aerial perspective of Emily's country in the spring of 1992. From late 1991 onwards Emily explored a range of techniques having largely abandoned the fine dotting and submerged
0085: Emily Kame Kngwarreye - Alatyite (Spinifex) Dreaming,Est. A$25,000-A$35,000Lot Closed
Emily Kame Kngwarreye - My Country, 1995: Reflected in this work is the Anooralya Yam, the most important plant in Emily’s custodianship. This hardy and fertile plant provides both a seed bearing flower called Kame (Emily’s
0086: Emily Kame Kngwarreye - My Country, 1995Est. A$20,000-A$25,000Lot Closed
Minnie Pwerle - Awelye Atnwengerrp, 2004: The manner in which Minnie Pwerle created her works was the result of an urgency to reconnect to the past and keep the Dreaming a living reality. In painting after painting, she depicted the body
0087: Minnie Pwerle - Awelye Atnwengerrp, 2004Est. A$7,000-A$10,000Lot Closed
Lorna Naparrula Fencer - Caterpillar , 2000: Born at Yarturlu Yarturlu, a Yam Dreaming site in the Tanami Desert, Lorna Fencer was the custodian of inherited land Yumurrpa situated near Chilla Well, south of the Granites Mine. Her
0088: Lorna Naparrula Fencer - Caterpillar , 2000Est. A$5,000-A$7,000Lot Closed
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart - Walawurru Eagle Dreaming,: Paddy Stewart was present during the crucial early period in the emergence of Western Desert art at Papunya, however, he moved to settle at Yuendumu, 100 kilometres to the north and closer to his
0089: Paddy Japaljarri Stewart - Walawurru Eagle Dreaming,Est. A$2,500-A$3,500Lot Closed
Jimmy Baker - Kanpi, 2005: Jimmy Baker was born in the Western Desert at a rockhole called Malumpa, a location close to the present-day community of Kanpi in north-west South Australia. He was one of the most senior and highly
0090: Jimmy Baker - Kanpi, 2005Est. A$3,500-A$4,500Lot Closed
Susie Napaltjarri Bootja Bootja - Untitled (Tjaluwon),: Susie walked in from the desert as a teenager to Tjumundora, one of the early mission sites, and then moved to the old mission at Balgo Hills in WA in 1946. where she worked in the kitchen making
0091: Susie Napaltjarri Bootja Bootja - Untitled (Tjaluwon),Est. A$3,500-A$4,500Lot Closed
Fred Tjakamarra - Water Dreaming at Yuntu, 1995: This is the artist’s father country where a series of creeks are bounded by hills. It is a Water Dreaming site in the desert associated with rainmaking ceremonies. Clouds are depicted and what
0092: Fred Tjakamarra - Water Dreaming at Yuntu, 1995Est. A$4,000-A$6,000Lot Closed
Johnny Warnangkula Tjupurrula - Men's Ceremony, 1999: Born in the far reaches of the Western Desert, Johnny Warangkula encountered the outside world at just 12 years of age. Within three years his family moved in to Hermannsburg mission where he went
0093: Johnny Warnangkula Tjupurrula - Men's Ceremony, 1999Est. A$5,000-A$7,000Lot Closed
Paddy Tjapaltjarri Sims - Marla Jukurrpa (Rock Wallaby: Paddy Japaljarri Sims was born in about 1917 at Kunajarray (Mt Nicker), south-west of Yuendumu at a site where a number of Dreaming tracks interconnect.He began painting in the early 1980s while
0094: Paddy Tjapaltjarri Sims - Marla Jukurrpa (Rock WallabyEst. A$4,000-A$6,000Lot Closed
Polly Ngal - Bush Plum, 2005: Now in her eighties, Polly Ngal belongs to the oldest living generation of Utopia women and ranks amongst the most accomplished painters who have worked there during the past 20 years. Like many
0095: Polly Ngal - Bush Plum, 2005Est. A$4,500-A$6,500Lot Closed
Emily Pwerle - Awelye-Atnwengerrp , 2008: Emily Pwerle began painting during a workshop held at Ultja station in 2004. Her extended family are all artists, including her sister, the late Minnie Pwerle, her other sisters Molly and Gayla, and
0096: Emily Pwerle - Awelye-Atnwengerrp , 2008Est. A$7,000-A$9,000Lot Closed