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Established in 1994 Galeria Aniela won the trust of some of the most important Australian artists including Arthur Boyd, Jamie Boyd,  Andrew Sibley, Alan Somerville, Bogdan Fialkowski, Charles Blackman, Celia Perceval, Col Henry, Danielle Legge, David Boyd, Dino Rogliani, Garry Shead, Gaye Spencer, Janusz Kuzbicki, John Olsen, John de Burgh Perceval, Kinga Rypinska, Lenore Boyd, Michael Vaynman, Nathaniel Boyd, Pamela Griffith, Pin Hsun Hsiang, Peter Smith, Robin Holliday, Ray Crooke, Regina Noakes, Susan Weaver, Tessa Perceval and many Aboriginal artists. Galeria Aniela specializes in selling to a world wide buyer base high-quality art by renowned artists. We combine art and financial expertise, to deliver to collectors, investors and institutions unique art investments. We recognize the importance of a buyer confidence in purchasing an authentic original work of art, we sell items only of impeccable provenance and quality. Our people focused approach ensures an enjoyable and a rewarding experience.

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Lilly Kelly Napangardi (1948)   Click - Share your art enjoyment    Click - Share your art enjoyment   Email

Auction Results Sotheby's sold Lily Kelly  'Sandhills Around Mount Leibig' for $39,600 24/07/2007, Lawson~Menzies sold 'Sandhills 2005' for $24,000 and Christies fetch $22,705 for Lilly Kelly untitled painting.
Biography Lily Kelly is represented throughout the world, her paintings have the physical presence of much contemporary work of art, the intricate subtle details that move with the viewer’s eyes and give the multi dimensional appearance.

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Lilly Kelly Napangardi born 1948

99-313 Rain,
Sand Hills
Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen
Size: 90 x 86 cm
Framed:
130 x 128 cm

 Buy Now Price: $12,500
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Lilly Kelly Napangardi born 1948
77-919 Sand Hills
Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen
158 x 125 cm

Buy Now Price: $19,500
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Lilly Kelly Napangardi born 1948
77-1005
Sand Hills
Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen
158 x 98 cm

Buy Now Price: $18,500
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Lilly Kelly Napangardi  BIOGRAPHY

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Lilly Kelly Napangardi was born circa 1948 in the Haast Bluff region of the Northern Territory. She lived at the newly established settlement of Papunya for much of her early life, relocating to Mt Liebig with her husband in the early 1980's. Lilly Kelly Napangardi is from Mount Liebig, and is a senior law woman of the Watiyawanu community, Haasts Bluff. Lilly moved to Papunya in the 1960's, and was later noted for the assistance she gave to her husband, the painter Norman Kelly. She began painting in the 1980's.

Lilly Kelly Napangardi hypnotic 'Sand Hills' paintings are made up of fine dots and dashes, their muted tones building up a mysterious, hidden topography of her land.

Lilly Kelly Napangardi holds authority over the "Women Dreaming " story associated with Kunajarrayi. Throughout this time Lilly assisted her husband Norman Kelly with his paintings, becoming an artist in her own right in 1986 when she began painting for Papunya Tula artists.

AWARDS
1986 Telstra NATSIAA Art Award
2002 Telstra
NATSIAA Art Award
2003 Telstra
NATSIAA Art Award

Lilly Kelly Napangardi work is represented by major collections throughout the world visit www.qag.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art/lily_kelly_napangardi

 COLLECTIONS:
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery
Art Bank, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Richard Kelton Foundation Santa Monica USA
Art Gallery of South Australia
 
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Bank, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
 
Homes a Court Collection, Perth, Australia
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Kerry Stokes collection, Perth
Kelton Foundation USA

Thomas Vroom Collection Amsterdam
James Erskine
Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund Contemporary Aboriginal Art

Lilly depicts stories from the Haasts Bluff and Kunajarrayi region, her traditional country, for the Watyawanu Art Centre. Lilly portrays commanding innovative interpretations of her traditional country. Her most recent works are skillful representations of sand hills in their various forms. Lilly's works are in high demand and are represented in major private and public collections throughout the world.

She is a senior law woman of the Watiyawanu community, in the Haasts Bluff area of the Northern Territory, 325 kilometers north-west of Alice Springs. She holds authority over the Women's Dreaming story associated with Kunajarrayi, and is now teaching younger women traditional dancing and singing.

Lily Kelly Napangardi Sandhills of Kintore area 2003 is in the collection of Australian National Gallery of Queensland www.qag.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art/lily_kelly_napangardi

Her subjects include her country's sand hills, its winds and the desert environment after rain, especially the sandhills of the Kintore and Connistan areas. Her paintings often note the seasonal changes in this sandy landscape, and the crucial waterholes found in the rocks in the area. In this mysterious and elemental landscape, the features, such as rock holes and even mountain ranges, seem to appear and disappear with the changing winds and blowing sands. Water marks this land, as the run-off from the rains makes a pattern of lines and striations down the surface of the sand hills. Napangardi notes the finest microcosmic details but embeds these into a macrocosmic view of the landscape. The ephemeral nature of this drifting, changing country is Lily Kelly Napangardi's key subject, and the viewer, walking in front of her painting, can sense something of the immersive experience of her country.

Selected Exhibitions
1999
Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs
2000 Graham Marshall Gallery, Adelaide
2001 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs;
2002 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs.
2002 Telstra Awards;
2003 Telstra Awards
2003 Neil Murphy Indigenous Art showing at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2003 Graham Marshall Gallery, Adelaide;
2003 Telstra Awards; 2003 Neil Murphy Indigenous Art Span Galleries, Melbourne; 
2003 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs;
2004 Neil Murphy Indigenous Art showing at Span Galleries, Melbourne,
2004 Mary Place Gallery, Sydney;
2004 Graham Marshall Gallery, Adelaide

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Sandhills Around Mount Leibig 2004 Click here to view image

$39,600

Sotheby's Australia Lot 167 Est: $12,000-16,000 cat. NJM04/0235 Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24/07/2007

Sandhills, 2005 Click here to view image $24,000 Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22/11/2006, Lot No. 42

Untitled Click here to view image

$22,705

Christies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30/08/2005, Lot No. 8

Sandhills 2005 Click here to view image

$19,200

Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 30/05/2006, Lot No. 153

Tali at Ilpili Click here to view image

$16,500

 Elder Fine Art, Aboriginal Art, Adelaide, 06/08/2006, Lot No. 33

Sand Hills Story 2006 Click here to view image

$15,600

Lawson~Menzies, Colonial to Contemporary Including Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 25/03/2009, Lot No. 141

Untitled, 2000 Click here to view image

$11,950

 Mossgreen Auctions, The Elizabeth Jones Collection of Contemporary, Melbourne, 14/08/2007, Lot No. 79

Sandhills - Tali

$10,620

Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 13/11/2006, Lot No. 196

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After Rain, White Sand hills Cat. 99-313

Lilly Kelly Napangardi born 1948

Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen

Image: 90 x 86 cm
Framed :130 x 126 cm

NOTES

Provenance: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community of Amunturrngu Certificate 99-313

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Sandhills Cat. 77-919 around Mount Leibig

Lilly Kelly Napangardi born 1948

Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen

158 x 125 cm

NOTES

Provenance: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community of Amunturrngu Certificate 99-313

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Sandhills Cat. 77-1005 around Mount Leibig

Lilly Kelly Napangardi born 1948

Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen

158 x 98 cm

NOTES

Provenance: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community of Amunturrngu Certificate 99-313

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All three (Lilly Kelly Napangardi paintings (99-313, 77-919 and 77-1005) are the top-quality paintings with the physical presence of much contemporary work of art, completed with the fascinating accuracy of the intricate details and subtle shades that moves with the viewer’s eyes and floats in the air, creating the multi dimensional sensation.

Lilly Kelly Napangardi 'Sand Hills' paintings made up of fine dots and dashes are hypnotic, their muted tones building up a mysterious, hidden topography of her land. Napangardi paintings note the seasonal changes of the sandy landscapes using microcosmic dots. Her landscapes are fascinating, seem to appear and disappear with the changing winds and blowing sands and the run-off from the rains that makes a pattern of lines and striations down the surface of the sand hills. Napangardi creates forever moving landscapes, the ephemeral nature of this drifting and changing country. This is Napangardi key subject, and the viewer, walking in front of her painting, can sense something of the immersive experience of her country.

Lilly Kelly Napangardi uses soft, the most finest dot work and shades of beautiful colour to create sand hills, its winds, the rainfall and the desert environment after the rain in her natural world. Lilly Kelly Napangardi paintings are is in high demand and she is represented in major public collections throughout the world.

AWARDS:
1986  Telstra Art Award
2002  20th Telstra NATSIAA Art Award
2003 21st Telstra NATSIAA Art Award

Lily Kelly Napangardi painting sold for $39,600. Lily Kelly Napangardi Sandhills of Kintore area 2003 is in the collection of Australian National Gallery of Queensland www.qag.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art/lily_kelly_napangardi

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