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Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
Purchased from the artist at Papunya by a visiting Adelaide theater director, late 1972
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 28, 1999, lot 102
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
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
Everywhen: The External Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 5 February - 18 September 2016
Australian Consulate-General New York, Official Consul General Residence, New York, 5 October 2021 - 20 October 2022
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Publications
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 28, 1999, page 80
Perkins and Fink, Genesis and Genius, 2000, page 39 (ill.), page 283; also page 38 for a related image
Benjamin, Roger, review of Papunya Tula: Genius and Genesis, in Humanities Research no. 1, 2000 (cover ill.)
Bardon and Bardon, 2004, page 444, painting 415
Myers, Fred R., and Terry Smith. 2024. Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Durham: Duke University Press.
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p.130 - 141