Anatjari (Yanyatjarri) Tjakamarra
Provenance
The artist, created 1971-72
Acquired by a resident worker in Papunya in 1971-72 directly from Geoffrey Bardon
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 30, 1997, lot 72a
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
Art and the Global Climate Struggle, The Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14 August - 19 December 2021