John Kipara Tjakamarra
Provenance
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, consignment 19, painting 45 (no. 19045)
Purchased at Papunya in 1972
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 28, 1999, lot 47
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, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 28, 1999, page 40
Cf. Perkins and Fink, Genesis and Genius, 2000, page 36-37
Johnson, Lives, 2008, pages 11-12
Dot Circle & Frame, by John Kean, First published in Australia in 2023 by Upswell Publishing. Perth, Western Australia