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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, A Joke Story, 1972

Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri

A Joke Story, 1972
Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
18 1/8 X 35 7/8 inches (46.04 x 91.12 cm)
Photo: Tony De Camillo for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
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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

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