George Tjangala
Provenance
The Artist, painted November - December 1971
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 9, painting 38, cat. no. 9038
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
Private Collection, Michigan
Sotheby's, Melbourne, Important Aboriginal Art, 29 June 1998, lot 102
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
Bardon, Geoffrey, and James Bardon. Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement. The Miegunyah Press, 2004, p. 382.
Diggins, Lauraine. A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art. Malakoff Fine Art Press, 1989, cat. 50, p. 53 (illus.)
Sotheby's. Important Aboriginal Art. Melbourne, 29 June 1998, p. 62.