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Title

Women's dreaming

1986

Artist

Maxie Tjampitjinpa

Australia

circa 1945 – 1997

Language group: Warlpiri, Central Desert region

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  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Central and Western Desert → Northern Territory → Australia
    Cultural origin
    Papunya Tula Movement
    Date
    1986
    Media category
    Painting
    Materials used
    synthetic polymer paint on linen
    Dimensions
    182.5 x 122.0 x 2.3 cm stretcher
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Gift of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1995
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    481.1995
    Copyright
    © Estate of Maxie Tjampitjinpa. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
    Artist information
    Maxie Tjampitjinpa

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  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Central and Western Desert

  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 3 exhibitions

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 5 publications

    • Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Steven Miller, Tony Tuckson, James Scougall, Mollie Gowing, Harry Messel, Craig Brush, Ronald Fine, Alison Fine, Gordon Davies, Rosalind Davies, Christopher Hodges, Helen Eager, Rosemary Gow, Sandra Phillips, Daphne Wallace and Ken Watson, Gamarada, Sydney, 1996.

    • Vivien Johnson and Tim Johnson, The Painted Dream, 1991, 47.

    • Vivien Johnson, Painted Dreams, 'Collecting Western Desert Art - a personal view', pg. 8-13, Sydney, 1995, 11, 38, 39 (colour illus.), 46. plate no. 13

    • Chips Mackinolty., The Australian, `Vanguard of `new wave' Papunya art', Sydney, 22 May 1997, (illus.).

    • Ross Mellick and Nick Waterlow, Spirit and place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Sydney, Nov 1996, 150.

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