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Title

Snake dreaming

1984

Artist

Timmy Payungu Tjapangati

Australia

circa 1940 – 07 May 2000

Language group: Pintupi, Western Desert region

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  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Kiwirrkura → Central and Western Desert → Northern Territory → Australia
    Cultural origin
    Papunya Tula Movement
    Date
    1984
    Media category
    Painting
    Materials used
    synthetic polymer paint on canvas
    Dimensions
    123 x 76.5 x 2.2 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
    485.1995
    Copyright
    © Estate of Timmy Payungu Tjapangati. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd

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    Works in the collection

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  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 3 exhibitions

    • Painted Dreams, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1982–1982

    • Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997

    • Bulada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Aug 1997–14 Dec 1997

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 3 publications

    • Vivien Johnson, Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists, 'Timmy Payungka Tjapangati', pg. 47-50, Northern Territory, 2008, 47 (colour illus.). NOTE: In this book the painting is reproduced with a different orientation.

    • Vivien Johnson, Painted Dreams, 'Collecting Western Desert Art - a personal view', pg. 8-13, Sydney, 1995, 10, 28, 29 (colour illus.,), 46. plate no. 8

    • Wendy Symonds (Editor), Look, 'The Festival of the Dreaming', pg. 22-23, Heidelberg, Sep 1997, 23 (illus.).

Other works by Timmy Payungu Tjapangati

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