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Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
The Artist, painted early 1972
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 17, painting 33, cat. no. 17033
Argyle Arts Center, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney
Deutscher-Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, 20 April, 1998, lot 4
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
Deutscher-Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, 20 April, 1998, p.18
Bardon and Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2004, p. 222, painting 132
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