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Uta Uta Tjangala Pintupi, circa 1926-1990
Ceremonial Story [formerly Untitled], 1972
Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
30 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches (78.11 x 29.85 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted in 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 17, painting 47, cat. no. 17041
Acquired by a Canadian doctor who worked at Papunya in 1972
Private Collection, Vancouver
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, lot 97
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
Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis And Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p. 27 - 29
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, p. 91
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2004, p. 412, painting 375
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
"This ceremonial story shows ceremonial objects and a consistently repeated striation of dotted lines that are sometimes used to depict body paint, particularly breast patterning on women or in the sand." (Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, 2004, p. 412)
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Uta Uta Tjangala, Medicine Story (version 3), 1972
