Yumpuluru Tjungurrayi
Provenance
The artist, created early 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, consignment 19, painting 61 (no. 19061)
Tim Guthrie Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 30, 1997, lot 14
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 August - 12 November 2000
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
Publications
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 30, 1997: page 15
Perkins and Fink, Genesis and Genius, 2000: pages 34 (ill.) and 289
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 449, painting 419
Johnson, Out of the Desert, 2007: page 142
Johnson, Lives, 2008: pages 152-55