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Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa
Provenance
The artist, created October 1971
Acquired at the first exhibition of Papunya paintings in Alice Spring in October 1971 by R.C. (Dick) Kimber
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1998, lot 21
Collection of John and Barbara Wilkerson, New York
Exhibitions
Dot and Circle, A Retrospective Survey of the Aboriginal Paintings of Central Australia, RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne, 16 April - 3 May 1985, (Cat 1)
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
Publications
Kimber, “Papunya Tula: Artists of Central and Western Deserts of Australia,” in Australian Art Review, ed. Leon Paroissien (Warner Associates, 1982 pages 122—25 (ill detail page 123.)
Dot and Circle: A Retrospective Survey of the Aboriginal Acrylic Painting of Central Australia, eds. Zimmer and Maughan, cat 1, page 9 (ll.)
Cf. Johnson, Dreamings of the Desert, page 19 for two similar paintings by Kappa
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, June 29, 1998. Page 21
Cf. Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Sydney, October 20, 2008, Page 101-102