Willy Tjungurrayi PINTUPI, Circa 1930-2018
Provenance
The Artist, Painted at Warra Wea [Waruwiya] for Papunya Tula Artists
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, cat. no. WJ761258
Private Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 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
Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis And Genius, Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000, p. 96-97 (illus.)
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, p. 68
Johnson, Lives, 2008, p. 150-52
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