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Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya
Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya
Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya
Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya
Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya - Image 1
Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya - Image 2
Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya - Image 3
Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya - Image 4
Artist Name
Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri
Artwork Name
Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya, 1984
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Dimensions
47.83 x 72.05 inches
122 × 183cm
Inventory ID
INV-LOWT-0001

Provenance

The Artist
Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory, cat. no. TL840305
Private Collection, Adelaide, South Australia
Important Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 24 July 2007, lot 51
The John and Barbara Wilkerson Collection, United States of America, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, New York, October 1988 - December 1988; David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, Illinois, January - March 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California, May - August 1989; Museum of Victoria, September - December 1989; South Australian Museum, February to April 1990;Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 August - 12 November 2000Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 10 January - 5 April 2009; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 3 May - 2 August 2009, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York City, New York, 1 September - 5 December 2009; Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, 17 October 2013 - 31 January 2014; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 11 September - 12 December 2015Beyond Dreamings: The Rise of Indigenous Australian Art, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, 20 April 2018 - 7 July 2019Significant, D’Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, 17 June – 31 July 2021

Literature

Peter Sutton et al., Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, New York: The Asia Society Galleries and George Braziller Publishers, 1988, p.63, fig.90, illustrated

Peter Sutton (ed.), Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, Viking, Melbourne, 1988, p.63, fig.90, illustrated.

Hetti Perkins, Hannah Fink, (eds.), Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p.94 illustrated.

Roger Benjamin (ed.), Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, illustrated.
Significant 2021, D’Lan Contemporary Pty Ltd, Melbourne, p. 46

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