Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri Pintupi Language Group, c. 1926-August 16, 1998
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Papunya, 1972
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, cat. no. PT 30
Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, Fine Aboriginal Art, 27 June 2000, lot 32
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
Publications
Benjamin, Roger, Fred Myers, Vivien Johnson, et al. Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya. Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2009.
Deutscher-Menzies. Fine Aboriginal Art. Melbourne, 27 June 2000, p. 25.
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![Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri, Yam Traveling in the Sandhills (Version 2) [Formerly Bush Tucker Story], 1971](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri, Yam Traveling in the Sandhills (Version 2) [Formerly Bush Tucker Story], 1971 -
Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri, Tjunginpa, 1991
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Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri, Big Cave Dreaming with Ceremonial Object [formerly Untitled], 1972
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Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri, Old Man’s Dreamings, 1972
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