Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
The artist, created February 1972
Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, consignment 6, painting 6 (no. 6006)
Private Collection, Northern Territory
Deutscher-Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, 20 April 1998, lot 1
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, April 20 1998: page 15
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 334, painting 276; also pages 331-37
Dot Circle & Frame, by John Kean, First published in Australia in 2023 by Upswell Publishing. Perth, Western Australia
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p.130 - 141