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)
© The Estate of the Artist, by permission of Papunya Tula Artists through the Aboriginal Artists Agency. Photography by 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, Melbourne, Aboriginal Art, 25 July 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
Publications
Bardon, Geoffrey. Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert. McPhee Gribble, 1991, p. 113.
Benjamin, Roger, Fred Myers, Vivien Johnson, et al. Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya. Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2009.
Genocchio, Benjamin. Dollar Dreaming: Inside the Aboriginal Art World. Hardie Grant, 2008, pp. 15–16, 21–26.
Hossack, Rebecca. "Collectors' Focus." Apollo, vol. CLXII, no. 524, October 2005, pp. 86–87.
Johnson, Vivien. The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Craftsman House, 1994, p. 34.
Johnson, Vivien. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Art Gallery of South Australia, 2004, pp. 60, 218–219.
Sotheby's. Aboriginal Art. Melbourne, 25 July 2005, pp. 60–61.
Strickland, Katrina. "Clifford Possum Buyer Uncovered." The Australian, 27 July 2005, p. 3.
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
