Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa
Provenance
The artist, created early 1972
Private collection, New South Wales
Deutscher-Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian and International Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, August 10, 1998, lot 14
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
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
Deutscher-Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian and International Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, August 10, 1998: page 25
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 278, painting 211; also pages 64-65