Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
A Joke Story, 1972
Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
18 ⅛ x 35 ⅞ inches (46.04 x 91.12 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 8, painting 5, cat. no. 8005
Private Collection, Vancouver
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, lot 87
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
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, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July, 2001, p. 86
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. 284, painting 224
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