Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
The Honey Ant Story, 1972
Synthetic polymer/powder paint on composition board
30 ⅜ x 23 ¾ inches (77.15 x 60.33 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted February 1972
Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 6, painting 6, cat. 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, 20 April, 1998, p. 15
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. 331-337
John Kean, Dot Circle & Frame, Upswell Publishing: Perth, 2023
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p. 130 - 141
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