Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
Acquired at an exhibition at the house of Papunya art advisor Peter Fannin in 1973
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 30, 1997, lot 72
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
Johnson, The Art of Clifford Possum Tapaltjarni, 1994, page 50 (see pages 42-43 for illustrations of similar works from this period)
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 30, 1997, page 53
Bardon and Bardon, 2004, page 376, painting 330
Myers, Fred R., and Terry Smith. 2024. Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Durham: Duke University Press.