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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Freddy West Tjakamarra, Old Man’s Ceremony, circa 1972

Freddy West Tjakamarra

Old Man’s Ceremony, circa 1972
Synthetic polymer/powder paint on composition board
35 7/8 x 29 ¾ max inches (91.12 x 75.57 max cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
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Provenance

The Artist, painted circa 1971- 1972

Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 9, painting 42, cat. no. 9042

Private Collector, acquired from the above, 1972

Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June, 1998, lot 15

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, 29 June, 1998, p. 18

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. 414, painting 378

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