Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
The artist, created February 1972
Purchased by Larry May from Geoffrey Bardon at Papunya, May-June 1972
Larry and Susan May, Arizona
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
Publications
Bardon, Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert, 1991: page 113
Johnson, The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 1994: page 34
Johnson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 2004: pages 60 and 218-19
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 25, 2005: pages 60-61
Maslen, "Dot painting sets a record," Sydney Morning Herald, July 26, 2005: page 3
Maslen, "Lost: bid to keep key work at home," Sydney Morning Herald, July 27, 2005: page 14
Strickland, Katrina, "Clifford Possum buyer uncovered," The Australian, July 27, 2005: page 3
Hossack, Rebecca, "Collectors' Focus," Apollo, vol. CLXII, no. 524, October 2005: pages 86-87
Genocchio, Benjamin, Dollar Dreaming: Inside the Aboriginal Art World (Melbourne: Hardie Grant), 2008: pages 15-16, 21-26, page 23