Willy Tjungurrayi PINTUPI, Circa 1930-2018
Provenance
Painted at Warra Wea [Waruwiya] for Papunya Tula Artists
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, no. WJ761258
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 9, 2001, lot 71
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
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 2023Publications
Cf. Perkins and Fink, Genesis and Genius, 2000, pages 96-97 (ill.)
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 9, 2001, page 68
Johnson, Lives, 2008, pages 150-52