Provenance
Painted at Papunya 1979
Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory, cat. No. CP791224
Dr Vivien Johnson, Northern Territory
The Estates of Professor Peter and Mrs Jane Johnson
Aboriginal Art, Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 24 November 2009, lot 58
The Le Pley Collection, Western Australia
Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory, cat. No. CP791224
Dr Vivien Johnson, Northern Territory
The Estates of Professor Peter and Mrs Jane Johnson
Aboriginal Art, Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 24 November 2009, lot 58
The Le Pley Collection, Western Australia
Exhibited
The Painted Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal paintings from the Tim and Vivien Johnson Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, and at the Te Whare Taonga o Aotearoa National Art Gallery and Museum, Wellington,. New Zealand, 1991.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 31 October 2003 - 26 January 2004; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 24 March - 3 May 2004; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 May - 11 July 2004; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 7 August - 24 October 2004.
Significant part I, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, 2 June – 22 July 2023
Literature
Tim Johnson and Vivien Johnson, The Painted Dream: Contemporary.
Aboriginal paintings from the Tim and Vivien Johnson Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1991.
Vivien Johnson, The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Sydney: Gordon and Breach Arts International, Sydney 1994, p. 77, pl. 23.
Vivien Johnson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Art Gallery of South. Australia, Adelaide 2003, p. 121 and p. 237, pl. 24.
For a comparison with three other major works from the period in which this painting was created, see Two Men Fighting, 1978, and Dreamings of Napperby Station, 1980, the latter in the Holmes à Court Collection, in Johnson 1994, p. 76, plate 22, and p. 90, plate 30, and in Johnson 2003, p. 119 and p. 125 respectively; and Possum Dreaming (Yalkuti), 1981, also in the Holmes à Court Collection in. Johnson 1994, p. 88, plate 28. See also Yuutjutiyungu 1979, in Johnson 1994, pp. 70-71, pl. 20 and Johnson 2003, pp. 108-109, (illus.).
Significant part I 2023, D'Lan Contemporary Pty Ltd, Melbourne, p. 55
Aboriginal paintings from the Tim and Vivien Johnson Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1991.
Vivien Johnson, The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Sydney: Gordon and Breach Arts International, Sydney 1994, p. 77, pl. 23.
Vivien Johnson, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Art Gallery of South. Australia, Adelaide 2003, p. 121 and p. 237, pl. 24.
For a comparison with three other major works from the period in which this painting was created, see Two Men Fighting, 1978, and Dreamings of Napperby Station, 1980, the latter in the Holmes à Court Collection, in Johnson 1994, p. 76, plate 22, and p. 90, plate 30, and in Johnson 2003, p. 119 and p. 125 respectively; and Possum Dreaming (Yalkuti), 1981, also in the Holmes à Court Collection in. Johnson 1994, p. 88, plate 28. See also Yuutjutiyungu 1979, in Johnson 1994, pp. 70-71, pl. 20 and Johnson 2003, pp. 108-109, (illus.).
Significant part I 2023, D'Lan Contemporary Pty Ltd, Melbourne, p. 55
1209
Status
Sold