Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri
Ngalyukuntinya, 1985
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
48 x 48 inches ( 121.92 x 121.92 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, cat. no. TL850848
Private Collection, Adelaide
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June, 1998, lot 236
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi at Roar Studios, Melbourne, 1986
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, Melbourne, 30 June, 1998, p. 117
Peter Latz, Bushfires and Bushtucker: Aboriginal Plant Use in Central Australia, IAD Press: Alice Springs, 1995, p. 102-104
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