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Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
Purchased by a mission worker in the Alice Springs area in late 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, consignment 19, painting 225 (no. 19225)
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, June 29, 1998, 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, June 29, 1998, page 38
Bardon and Bardon, 2004, page 227, painting 138
Johnson, Lives, 2008, pages 44-46
Dot Circle & Frame, by John Kean, First published in Australia in 2023 by Upswell Publishing. Perth, Western Australia
Myers, Fred R., and Terry Smith. 2024. Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Durham: Duke University Press.