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Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri
Yam Traveling in the Sandhills (Version 2) [formerly Bush Tucker Story], 1971
Synthetic polymer/powder paint on composition board
20 ¼ x 14 ⅙ inches (51.44 x 35.88 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, late 1971
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 10, painting 17, cat. no. 10017
Private Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 June, 1996, lot 38
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
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Publications
Sotheby's, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 June, 1996, p. 19
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2004, p. 232, painting 146
Roger Benjamin, Fred Meyers, Vivien Johnson, et al., Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, The Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2009, p. 94-95 (Forward written by John and Barbara Wilkerson)
Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, 2023 (illus.)
"There is agreeable spareness and simplicity about this work. With his minimal tracks of white dots, Namararri is able to activate the entire rectangle of the board. Despite the visual focus being the bold red-ochre sandhill motif. Within a year, Mick Namararri had developed this elemental design into a magnificent richness of overlapping arcs forming arabesques and fish-scale patterns, rendered in minute white dots over a salmon ground." (Roger Benjamin, Fred Meyers, Vivien Johnson, et al., Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, 2009, p. 94-95 )
Related artworks
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Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri, Water Dreaming, 1972 -
Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri, Big Cave Dreaming with Ceremonial Object [formerly Untitled], 1972
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Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri, Tjunginpa, 1991
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Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri, Old Man’s Dreamings, 1972
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