Description

Lily Kelly Napangardi

TITLE: Tali [sandhills]
PAINTED: 2009
IMAGE SIZE: approx 1000 x 810 mm [plus border for framing]
MEDIUM: Acrylic paint on quality pre-primed LINEN

THE PAINTING: Lily's amazing paintings of the Tali – or sandhills - of the Kintore and Coniston areas represent the gentle movements of the shifting desert sands caused by the seasonal winds. Painstakingly painting in white on a black primed background, Lily depicts her trademark genre with a wonderful sense of grace and movement that is almost 3D in its execution.

As a guide to its potential investment value, a larger Lily Kelly painting of this genre has fetched over $38,000 at auction so this striking piece undoubtedly represents outstanding value. Not to mention the aesthetic value and the fact it would attract admiring attention on any wall [hung either vertically or horizontally] that it happened to grace.

NOTE: Please see other photos below.

THE ARTIST:
NAME: Lily Kelly Napangardi
BORN: c1948
PLACE: Haasts Bluff
LIVES: Mt Liebig, Northern Territory

Lily Kelly Napangardi was born at Haasts Bluff in 1948 and moved to the newly established settlement of Papunya in the 1960's. She is now a respected senior law woman of the Mt Liebig community, 325 kilometres north west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Lily Kelly’s painting career commenced when she assisted her artist husband, Norman Kelly, with some of his earlier works.

Returning to Mt Liebig with her husband and three children in the early 1980's, Lily began painting in her own right with the Papunya Tula artists movement, winning the Northern Territory Art Award for painting in 1986.

Lily Kelly is now teaching younger women traditional dancing and singing associated with the Women's Dreaming story associated with Kunajarrayi – a Dreaming that she now holds authority over. As her paintings are keenly sort after the world over, she is featured in several successful exhibitions as well as many private and public collections.

PROVENANCE: A Certificate of Authenticity with a photo of Lily with her work that she has signed verso.

 
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