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Pilati or Nyapari - Eileen Yaritja Stevens
Eileen Yaritja Stevens
Pilati or Nyapari, 2006
acrylic on linen
95 x 167cm
$5,000
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Tjungu Palya, SA Cat No. TPEY06049
Private Collection, Vic
Art Leven [formerly Cooee Art], Gadigal (Sydney, NSW)
Tjungu Palya, SA Cat No. TPEY06049
Private Collection, Vic
Art Leven [formerly Cooee Art], Gadigal (Sydney, NSW)
Eileen Stevens was born in the bush at Makiri and worked at Ernabella mission milking goats as a young woman. She did not begin painting until her late 80s and had a brief career of less than four years prior to her death in 2008. Stevens' art focused on Makiri and its Dreamings, as well as on Piltati, near her husband's birthplace, which was closely related to the Two Snake Men Dreaming (Wati Wanampi Kutjara Tjukurpa).
She gained immediate renown for her rapidly painted, bold, and highly colour charged large works on canvases.
Inventory ID: 21006
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