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Bush Leaves

90 x 120 cm, stretched

Year: 2024

Cat.No: 03524

Regular price AUD 800.00
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Janet Golder Kngwarreye

/ Bush Leaves

/ Cat.No: 03524

 

This painting is delivered unstretched for AUD50 plus the advertised amount and you can process your order via this website. Stretched delivery comes at an additional cost of AUD250 for stretching and the additional delivery cost. Total for stretched delivery to an Australian address is therefore AUD1,050. Please send us an email and let us know that you require stretched delivery and let us know the delivery address. We will respond by sending you an email with a tax invoice for the total amount.

The painting is signed by Janet and was done by her in our gallery and it comes with a certificate of authenticity showing the artist with the painting.

The bush leaves depicted in this painting are from a particular bush which grows in a swamp close to the sand hills around Utopia in Central Australia. The leaves are collected by the women and boiled. Kangaroo fat is added and mixed into a paste which is used as bush medicine to treat a variety of ailments. Mixed with water it is drunk as a cure for headaches and colds. Through skilful use of colour and form the eye is drawn across a network of interconnected shapes, thus creating an optical illusion of the movement of leaves blowing across the Dreaming landscape.