(19 May 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 19 May 2023
1. Wide of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula on display
2. Various tight shots of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula on display
3. Wide of gallery
4. Mid of statue by Enraeld Djulabinyana Munkara
5. Various of painting titled "Aesthetic Equal Rights" by Richard Bell
6. Mid tilt of painting titled Numinya by George Tjungurrayi
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Klingender, Senior consultant for Australian art, Sotheby's New York:
"This year's sale -- it's the annual sale it's where -- it's the highlight of the international Aboriginal art market and it's where a lot of the great masterpieces each year get bought and sold."
8. Wide of workers installing paintings
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Klingender, Senior consultant for Australian art, Sotheby's New York:
"There's no artifacts in the sale. There are some early bark paintings from the 1950s and 60s. They're the earliest works in the sale and one sculpture from the 1950s. And but mainly it's contemporary works dating from the 1970s through to the even into the recent works from only a few years ago."
10. Tight of worker installing painting
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Klingender, Senior consultant for Australian art, Sotheby's New York:
"I think what's great is for the indigenous people of Australia, it's their contemporary art is the most successful contemporary art of any Indigenous peoples globally and it's now really firmly established art movement that is slowly and continuously becoming loved and understood internationally and getting into the world's great museums. Already there's going to be a dedicated space at the Metropolitan Museum in New York opening shortly. And we're seeing some really important shows being shown at the world's great museums. So it's an enormous source of pride for indigenous people. And it's such a great celebration of their culture and the way it's loved and the way people are learning more about the ancient tradition and the contemporary practice that's happening now."
12. Pan of workers moving box containing art
13. Wide of painting by Pepai Jangala Carroll
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Klingender, Senior consultant for Australian art, Sotheby's New York:
"Well, it's been happening for a long time. And since the nineties, the Indigenous Australian painting has been incorporated into museums shown as contemporary art. There are a lot of abstract sensibilities, even though the works are not abstract, they appear abstract and they relate to a lot of international contemporary painting in many ways. But it's fresh and exciting and different, and it's also with a completely different layered sense of meaning. So there's so much esthetically to attract collectors and just people to be interested in it. And there's also other layers of meaning that have profound and hugely interesting as well."
15. Wide exterior Sotheby's sign

STORYLINE:
Sotheby's auction house in New York is preparing for its annual sale of Australian Aboriginal art, celebrating the work of artists from the country's First Nations peoples from the mid-20th century to today.

The highlight of the auction is a masterwork by Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, titled Water and Bush Tucker Story.

Tjupurrula produced the painting at a rainmaking site in the 1972, and is now considered to be one of the masterworks of Australia's aboriginal Western Desert Movement.

It's expected to fetch between $400,000 and $600,000 US at auction.

The auction features other works by important Australian artists such as Sally Gabori, Makinti Napanangka, and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.









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