Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi
Wind Story, 1972
Synthetic polymer/powder paint on composition board
21 ¾ max x 13 ½ inches (55.25 max x 34.29 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted Late 1972
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June, 1997, lot 213
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
Exhibition of Pintupi Tribal Art, Cask Gallery, McLarenvale Bushing Festival, South Australia 26 October 1973, cat. 25
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
Publications
Sotheby's, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 June, 1997, page 105
Bardon and Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2004, p. 470, painting 448
Related artworks
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Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, Untitled, 1998
