John Kipara Tjakamarra
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Stuart Art Centre, 1972
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, consignment 19, painting 45, cat. no. 19045
Private Collection, purchased at Papunya in 1972
Sotheby's, Melbourne, Important Aboriginal Art, 28 June 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
Johnson, Vivien. Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists. IAD Press, 2008, pp. 11–12.
Kean, John. Dot and Circle: A Retrospective Survey of the Aboriginal Acrylic Painting of Central Australia. Upswell Publishing, 2023.
Perkins, Hetti, and Hannah Fink. Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius. Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000, pp. 36–37.
Sotheby's. Important Aboriginal Art. Melbourne, 1999, p. 40.