Emily Kame Kngwarreye, circa 1910-1996, ALALGURA 4,

synthetic polymer paint on linen  
bears artist's name, the numbers IU27 and 009569858, and inscribed 'Commissioned by Delmore Gallery via Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia' on the reverse  
121 BY 211CM  

Provenance: 
Commissioned by Delmore Gallery in 1991 
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 
Private collection  

Exhibited: 
Likely to have been exhibited in Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 1992

Cf. For related paintings executed around the same period as this work, see Seeds of Abundance, 1990, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, and Kame, 1991, in the collection of National Gallery of Victoria, in Jennifer Isaacs et al., Emily Kngwarreye Paintings,  Sydney,: Craftsman House, 1998, p.57, pl.12, and pp.68-9, pl.20, respectively; and Untitled, 1991, in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, in G. Barkley, Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009, p.25, with a detail on the front and back covers, (illus.).
 
Alalgura 4 is one of a number of expansive odes to Kngwarreye's country of birth, Alalgura (or Alhalkere) that she had commenced the previous year. It was a period when the artist continued her experimentation with mark making, and expanded the range of painterly approaches she brought to her work. Over a black ground, Kngwarreye has built a layered surface of yellow ochres, greens, pink, white and black with a deft touch of the brush that evokes the ancestral forces that animate the country

This painting is sold with an accompanying Delmore Gallery and Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi certificate