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Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
Purchased from Argyle Arts Center, Sydney, 1974
Private Collection, Sydney
Deutscher-Menziee, 19th and 20th Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, April 20, 1998, lot 4
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
Deutscher-Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, April 20, 1998: page 18
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 222, painting 132