Tommy Watson born circa 1935 KUKUTJARA

Painted in 2003
Irrunytju Arts, Western Australia
Cromwell's Auctioneers and Appraisers, Irrunytju Fundraising Art Auction, Sydney, series curator: Barbara Flynn, 11 August, 2003, lot 10
The Austcorp Group Limited Art Collection

Selections from the Austcorp Group Limited Collection of Aboriginal Art, New Australian Art exhibition series, The Deloitte Foundation, Sydney, 8 October-14 December 2007

Selections from the Austcorp Group Limited Collection of Aboriginal Art, New Australian Art exhibition series, Sydney: The Deloitte Foundation, 2007, p.23

This painting bears no visible signs of repairs or restoration and is in good and stable condition overall.
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Cf. For early career works on a similar scale by the artist see Awilyulu, 2003, and Anamarapiti, 2002, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, in J. Ryan (ed.), Colour Power: Aboriginal Art post 1984, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2004, pp. 80 and 81 respectively; Wangamarl, 2003, and Wipu, 2003, in the Laverty Collection in C. Laverty, et al, Beyond Sacred: Recent painting from Australia's remote Aboriginal communities. The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2008, pp. 106 and 107 respectively, illus. Wipu, 2003, is also illustrated in J. Ryan et al, Land Marks, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2006, p. 71.