![Unidentified Artist likely Tommy Lowery Tjapaltjarri, Archetypal Pintupi Ceremonial Dreaming [formerly Untitled], 1971](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_2400,h_2400,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/ws-twocollections/usr/images/artworks/main_image/items/cb/cb4b6b1a8f2a4e259f71e0b0af409fc5/cat03_unidentified.jpg)
Unidentified Artist likely Tommy Lowery Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
The artist, created September 1971
Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. W L Jackson, teachers at the Papunya School in early 1972 “at an exhibition to raise money to buy more painting supplies” (Sotheby’s Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 28, 1999, lot 55.)
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, Melbourne, June 28, 1999, p. 48
Perkins and Fink, Genesis and Genius, 2000, p. 12, 288