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Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, late 1971
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 10, painting 17, cat. no. 10017
Private Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 June, 1996, lot 38
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
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
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Publications
Sotheby's, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 June, 1996, p. 19
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2004, p. 232, painting 146