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Camel patrol, Central Australia early 1950s

Accession No.
1:1676
Date Created
early 1950s
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
27.6 x 38.4cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour over pencil on smooth cream wove paper
Credit Line
Bequest of Cedric Powne 1979

After earlier experiments with watercolour, Reuben Pareroultja took up painting full time in 1945. He was one of the very few Hermannsburg artists who painted figures openly in many of his landscapes. This had earlier been seen as taboo, as elders had forbidden figurative representations. Rex Battarbee encouraged Pareroultja’s figurative work and he became well known for representations of the camel patrols and camel trains that serviced the area.
 

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© Estate of Reuben Pareroultja/Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency

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A watercolour painting of a Central Australian landscape.
THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL

QAGOMA COLLECTION: Hermannsburg painters

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Irene Mbitjana Entata / Arrernte/Luritja people / Australia NT 1946–2014 / Albert and Rex painting (detail) 2003 / Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Irene Mbitjana Entata

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