Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Emu Corroboree Man, 1972
Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
18 ¹⁄₁₆ x 24 ⅛ inches (45.88 x 61.28 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted February 1972
Collection of Larry and Susan May, Arizona, purchased from Geoffrey Bardon at Papunya, May-June 1972
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 25, 2005, lot 72
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
Literature
Maslen, Dot painting sets a record, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 2005, p. 3
Maslen, Lost: bid to keep key work at home, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 2005, p. 14
Publications
Geoffrey Bardon, Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert, Victoria, Australia: McPhee Gribble, 1991, p. 113
Viven Johnson, The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Craftsman House, 1994, p. 34
Viven Johnson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2004, p. 60, 218-19
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 25 July 2005, p. 60-61
Katrina Strickland, "Clifford Possum buyer uncovered," The Australian, 27 July 2005, p. 3
Rebecca Hossack, "Collectors' Focus," Apollo, vol. CLXII, no. 524, October 2005, p. 86-87
Benjamin Genocchio, Dollar Dreaming: Inside the Aboriginal Art World, Melbourne: Hardie Grant, 2008, p. 15-16, 21-26
Roger Benjamin, Fred Meyers, Vivien Johnson, et al., Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, The Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2009
Related artworks
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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Dreaming Story at Warlugulong, 1976 -
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Women’s Dreaming about Bush Tucker “Yarlga”, 1972
