Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra
Provenance
The artist, created December 1971
Stuart Art Center, Alie Springs, consignment 4
Purchased Alice Springs, December 1971.
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1998, lot 244
Private Collection, Sydney
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 9, 2001, lot 130
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
Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 30 September 2011- 12 February 2012; Musee du quai Branly, Paris, France, 9 October 2012- 20 January 2013
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 29, 1998, Page 122
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 9, 2001, page 112
Cf, Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 293 (comparative images only)