Provenance
The Artist, painted at Papunya, Northern Territory
The W.L. Jackson Collection of Early Western Desert Paintings, Victoria
Important Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 June 1999, lot 69
Private Collection, Victoria
Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 31 July 2006, lot 81
The Luczo Family Collection, United States of America, acquired from the above
The W.L. Jackson Collection of Early Western Desert Paintings, Victoria
Important Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 28 June 1999, lot 69
Private Collection, Victoria
Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 31 July 2006, lot 81
The Luczo Family Collection, United States of America, acquired from the above
Exhibited
On long-term loan to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, March 2007 - 2015 and exhibited in the Collection Galleries, Art Gallery of South Australia, 27 March 2007 – 27 August 2010
Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 September 2011 – 12 February 2012; Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 9 October 2012 – 20 January 2013
Big Country, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 31 August 2013 – 19 January 2014
Literature
Geoffrey Bardon, Papunya Tula, Art of the Western Desert, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1991, p. 111 (illus.)
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, 2004, painting no. 216, p. 280 (illus.), and a photograph showing the artist painting this work is reproduced on p. 278 (illus.)
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, 2004, painting no. 216, p. 280 (illus.), and a photograph showing the artist painting this work is reproduced on p. 278 (illus.)