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Valuing artworks for replacement, gifting and sale
Kate Shaw painting from Noöspher series
This enchanting work by Kate Shaw has recently become available for purchase exclusively through RJA. It was purchased for clients, along with other works by Kate Shaw, from Martin Browne Gallery in 2019. Now that they have downsized, the owners are reluctantly letting it go to a good home. Could that be you?
 Katungka NAPANANGKA Pintupi 1950-2010 Untitled c. 2005 synthetic polymer paint and natural pigments on linen 122 x 122 cm Price: $3,000 Katungka is one of the daughters of Katarra Nampitjinpa, an important Pintupi artist who painted originally with the Papunya Tula Artists and then later with Ikuntji artists at Haasts Bluff. Katungka watched her mother and sister, Permungka, paint for many years but she only started painting regularly after her mother passed away in 1999. n 2005, she moved to Alice Springs, where she commenced painting with Papunya Tula Artists.
‘Katungka paints her mother’s dreaming stories or tjukurrpa from her country Ulkapa, near Kintore and the tjukurrpa from her own country at Intinti, both of which are far west of Haast’s Bluff, over the West Australian border.’ https://www.canberra.edu.au/on-campus/collections/the-art-collection/napanangka-katungka-kutjarr-kunya-at-intinti
RJA is proud to have placed this important painting by Mary Martin, formerly with the C-Bus Collection of Australian Art, back where it belongs. The work was on long-term loan at Wollongong Art Gallery before being acquired by us. As the Wollongong curator remarked. ‘it’s like having an old friend come home’.  Mandy MARTIN 1951-2021
Outer Harbour, Port Kembla, 1989 Oil on linen 100 x 243.5 cm This gorgeous sugarlift etching is one of our favourite Leunig works. Simplicity and sentiment are perfectly combined. It is in excellent condition and comes with a Letter of Authenticity from the Leunig family collection.
Heartening to see the auction record for Roma Thompson (1919-2020) well and truly broken, on the back of spirited in-house bidding, with two works offered on behalf of a client at Leonard Joel’s recent Spring ‘Women Artists’ exhibition. Born in 1919, Roma Thompson is an overlooked Australian modernist artist and designer who grew up in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Mentone. She left school at fifteen to pursue her passion for art and become a fulltime student at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 1945 she became an art teacher at RMIT and taught tapestry design and weaving at Caulfield Technical College. Thompson exhibited with the George Bell Group and Melbourne Contemporary Art Society in the 1940s and 50s before almost disappearing from public view, taking up painting again in the 1980s and exhibiting with Russell Davis Gallery. RJA are fortunate to be handling a small group of select works from this period, including the two works successfully sold at Leonard Joel. Watch out for future releases or contact us directly if you know the location of Thompson works, would like to learn more about the artist, or are interested in acquiring one for yourself!
Rod and Trish James recently spent time in Queensland’s beautiful Fraser Coast leading the development of a new Collection Acquisition and Management Policy for Council’s Art and Heritage Collection and developing a Preventative Conservation Plan for Hervey Bay Regional Gallery. The Gallery is currently closed for essential building remediation and renewal works with plans to reopen in 2022 with the new and exciting Fraser Coast National Art Prize.  |
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