1902-1959 24.0 x 34.0 cm ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Central Australian Landscape watercolour on paper 26.0 x 36.0 cm signed lower right: ALBERT NAMATJIRA, Estimate: DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27.5cm DIMENSIONS: AUD30,000 - AUD40,000, Description: Albert Namatjira North ranges looking south circa 1950s 81.1997. Windows on the Dreaming, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Ellsyd Press, Sydney, 1989, p. 14 Glen Helen Gorge (circa 1945 - 1951) Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) was the first Australian Aboriginal artist to receive national acclaim from the white community. PROVENANCE: [4] Alison French, See the Centre: the art of Albert Namatjira, 1902-1959, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2002, p. 38 George Alexander in 'Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014. From this vantage point, Namatjira’s gaze fixed on the intersection of several rocky planes that describe the path of the river southwards, towards the narrowest part of the gorge a kilometre away.5Namatjira would have been aware that the local name of the site Quarta-tooma (Egg-hit) refers to the ancestral Emu that visited the place. -

Königin Elisabeth II. The Ghost Gum of Palm Valley, c.1943 evokes the artist’s distinctive compositional type with his much-loved, luminous white ghost gum typically dominating the foreground, silhouetted against a dramatic, brilliantly coloured backdrop of distant mountain ranges. MacDonnell Ranges, c.1950 offers a superb example of Namatjira’s achievements, encapsulating the highly unique vision that has subsequently inspired generations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists alike across Australia. ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) GHOST GUMS - CENTRAL AUSTRALIA Signed lower right Watercolour 26.5 x 36.5cm $22,000/26,000, Description: Galarrwuy Yunupingu quoted in ‘The black/white conflict’ in Caruana, W. It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail! bears inscription verso: 20 Closed Good Friday & Christmas Day, Update from the Gallery regarding COVID-19, Read the latest visit information, including hours, Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia. JOHN KEAN, Description: AUD18,000 - AUD28,000. Please enter a valid email address (name@host.com), Lot 1: Albert Namatjira 1902-1959 THE VALLEY, MACDONNELL RANGES, NORTHERN TERRITORY (1956) watercolour over pencil on paper, Lot 1: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Hermannsburg Mission, circa 1940ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Hermannsburg Mission, circa 1940, Lot 1: ALBERT NAMATJIRA, MOUNT SONDER, c.1950s, Lot 2: ALBERT NAMATJIRA, (1902 – 1959), THE GHOST GUM OF PALM VALLEY, c.1943, watercolour and pencil on card, Lot 3: ALBERT NAMATJIRA, (1902 – 1959), GHOST GUM AND VALLEY, MACDONNELL RANGES, c.1950, watercolour on paper, Lot 5: ALBERT NAMATJIRA - GHOST GUMS - CENTRAL AUSTRALIA - Watercolour, Lot 5: ALBERT NAMATJIRA, JAY CREEK COUNTRY, early 1950s, Lot 7: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Central Australian Landscape, Lot 7: ALBERT NAMATJIRA , (1902 – 1959) , QUARTA-TOOMA (ORMISTON GORGE), 1939 , watercolour and gouache on paper, Lot 7: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959), Arrernte/Aranda language group Gums in the Gorge (also known as West of Haasts Bluff (Mt Vickery in the Distance)) 1952, Lot 7: ALBERT NAMATJIRA - MACDONNELL RANGES - Watercolour, Lot 8: Albert Namatjira circa 1902-1959 UNTITLED (CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE) (CIRCA 1955) watercolour and pencil, Lot 11: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Quarritana 1942, Lot 12: ALBERT NAMATJIRA 1902-1959 (MacDonnell Ranges) pencil and watercolour on paper on board 29 x 39.7cm, Lot 13: Albert Namatjira (1902-1959, Australian Aboriginal) Kreschauff Range watercolour on art paper laid down on board, Lot 13: Albert Namatjira circa 1902-1959 GHOST GUM AND THE WESTERN MACDONNELLS, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA (CIRCA 1953) watercolour and pencil, Lot 13: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Central Australian Landscape, Lot 13: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Group of Ghost Gums watercolour on paper, Lot 14: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Untitled (Central Australian Landscape with Gumtree), Lot 14: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Untitled (Alice Springs), Lot 14: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Central Australian Landscape, Lot 15: Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) Near Hermannsburg watercolour, Lot 15: ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Central Australian Landscape, Lot 15: Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) - Ghost Gum in Landscape, Lot 15: ALBERT NAMATJIRA - CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE - Watercolour, Lot 16: NAMATJIRA, Albert (1902-1959) - 'Redbank Creek, West of Mount Sonder, NT,' c1950.
The details of the picture are expressed with simple crisp outlines that show us the essential nature of the land and man’s place within it.

A potential buyer was put off because the signature was obscured, says the art consultant David Hulme, who was contacted by the woman - who asked not to be named - when the work didn't sell. He served only two months, and died shortly after. 24 by 34cm. This work is located at our Sydney Gallery signed and inscribed with title verso: … / Albert Namatjira / Jay Creek Country / 15

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ALBERT NAMATJIRA, (1902-1959), Plenty River Country, watercolour on paper, signed lower right: ALBERT NAMATJIRA|bears inscription on backing verso: Plenty River Country/ 60 GNS, 27.0 x 36.5 cm, (c) Legend Press Sydney, Description: Private collection, ACT Sue Miles, Australia: Studies of Society and Environment, Sydney, 1996, 162.