Yumpuluru Tjungurrayi
Provenance
The Artist, painted early 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 19, painting 61, cat. no. 19061
Tim Guthrie Collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June, 1997, lot 14
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 August - 12 November 2000
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, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June, 1997, p. 15
Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis And Genius, Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000, p. 34 (illus.), 289
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. 449, painting 419
Vivien Johnson, Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert, National Museum of Australia: Canberra, 2007, p. 142
Vivien Johnson, Lives of the Papunya Tula Artist, IAD Press, 2008, p. 152-155
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