Freddy West Tjakamarra
Provenance
The artist, created late 1971- early 1972
Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, consignment 9, painting 42 (no. 9042)
Acquired by a private collector at the Stuart Art Center, 1972
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1998, lot 15
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
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1998: page 18
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 414, painting 378