Charlie Tarawa (Tjararu) Tjungurrayi
An Audience with the Queen, 1989
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
47 ¼ x 47 ⅜ inches (120.02 x 120.33 cm)
© The Estate of the Artist, by permission of Papunya Tula Artists through the Aboriginal Artists Agency. Photography by Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Kintore, Northern Territory
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, cat. no. CT890660
Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby's, Melbourne, Aboriginal Art, 9 July 2001, lot 49
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
Australian Consulate-General New York, Official Consul General Residence, New York, 5 October 2021 - 20 October 2022
Publications
Benjamin, Roger, Fred Myers, Vivien Johnson, et al. Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya. Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 2009, pp. 164–165.
Myers, Fred, and Terry Smith. Six Paintings from Papunya: A Conversation. Duke University Press, 2024.
Related artworks
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Charlie Tarawa (Tjaruru) Tjungurrayi, The Trial, 1972 -
Charlie Tarawa (Tjaruru) Tjungurrayi, Moon Love Dreaming of Man and Woman – Medicine Story, 1971
