Charlie Tarawa (Tjaruru) Tjungurrayi
Provenance
Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs, consignment 19, painting 236 (no. 19236)
Private collection, France
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 26, 2004, lot 96
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
Australian Consulate-General New York, Official Consul General Residence, New York, 5 October 2021 - 20 October 2022
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Publications
Cf. Crocker, Andrew, Charlie Tjaruru Tjungurrayi: a retrospective 1970-86, 1987
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 26, 2004, page 78
Myers, Fred R., and Terry Smith. 2024. Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Durham: Duke University Press.
Thomas Connors, The Magazine Antiques, Cultural Crossings, July/August 2025, p.130 - 141