John Kipara Tjakamarra
Provenance
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 19, painting 45, cat. no. 19045
Private Collection, purchased at Papunya in 1972
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 June, 1999, lot 47
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
Publications
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 1999, p. 40
Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis And Genius, Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000, p. 36-37
Vivien Johnson, Lives of the Papunya Tula Artist, IAD Press, 2008, p. 11-12
John Kean, Dot and Circle: A Retrospective Survey of the Aboriginal Acrylic Painting of Central Australia, Upswell Publishing: Perth, 2023