Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
Provenance
The artist, created early 1972
Stuart Art Center, Alice Springs, consignment 8, painting 5 (no. 8005)
Acquired by a Canadian doctor who worked at Papunya in 1972
Private collection, Vancouver
Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, July 9, 2001, lot 87
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, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July 2001: page 86
Bardon and Bardon, 2004: page 284, painting 224