Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri

Three Corroboree Poles [formerly untitled], 1971

Synthetic polymer paint and natural earth pigments, on composition board

8 ⅞ x 2 ⅞ inches (22.54 x 7.3 cm)

Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Pintupi Language Group

Provenance

The Artist, painted late 1971

Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. W L Jackson, teachers at the Papunya School, 1972

Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 1999, lot 56

Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York

Exhibitions

Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 August - 12 November 2000

Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, The Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 10 January - 5 April 2009; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 3 May - 2 August, 2009; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, 1 September - 5 December, 2009

Abstraction & the Dreaming: Aboriginal Paintings from Australia’s Western Desert (1971 – Present), Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah, 11 September - 12 December 2015

Publications

Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, June 1999, p. 46, 48

Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis And Genius, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000, p. 12, 288 (illus.)

Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2004, p. 115, painting 15

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Related artworks

Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri, Pintupi Medicine Dreaming [formerly Medicine Story], 1972
Unidentified Artist likely Tommy Lowery Tjapaltjarri, Archetypal Pintupi Ceremonial Dreaming [formerly Untitled], 1971
Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri, Ngalyukuntinya, 1985

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