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Greeny Purvis Petyarre Biography
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Greeny Purvis Petyarre was a gentleman, a quiet, confident, traditional elder.
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Born around 1930 to the Eastern Anmatyerre tribe, Greeny, was also an innovative and exciting artist.
During her second solo of Greeny's work in 2004, Gabrielle Pizzi told Don Holt that, in her opinion, Greeny was 'the most sophisticated male Australian Aboriginal artist of his time'.
Greeny was the eldest nephew of Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
His father, Alhalkere Jack, was Emily's brother. Greeny was married to Kathleen Kemarre, with whom he had four daughters, Judy, Maureen, Jedda, and Jennifer. He was the senior "Emu Man" of Utopia, and also painted the Turkey, Yam and Kangaroo Dreamings.
Don Holt remembers vividly the day just after Emily Kame Kngwarreye died, when Greeny rang him up and invited him to attend the very important "sorry business".
He arrived with a load of fresh meat to feed 500 people and found that he was the on