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Angelina Pwerle Value Artworks and auction results 

Works Offered at Auction: 134
Sale Rate: 69%
Highest Sale: $130,000 AUD
Median Sale Price: $3,200 AUD

This page examines Angelina Pwerle’s auction history, important sales and the characteristics that can influence the value of her work. For her biography, painting style and the cultural significance of her Bush Plum paintings, see the main Angelina Pwerle biography and Painting style artist page.

Angelina Pwerle’s strongest auction results are dominated by her large Bush Plum paintings, particularly the finely worked, mature examples in which thousands of minute marks create dense, shifting fields across the canvas. Large scale, strong provenance and works associated with established galleries such as Delmore and Niagara are especially important to value.

Her auction market has strengthened considerably in recent years. The standout result is Bush Plum Country, 2003, which sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2023 for AUD 130,000. Other substantial results demonstrate increasing demand for major Bush Plum works, while smaller paintings, figurative works and painted sculpture occupy completely different price levels.

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Angelina Pwerle Value 1995

Carved wooden Night Owl figure by Angelina Pwerle, with a red head, white painted facial features and a body covered in multicoloured dots.

Kula Kul (Night Owl), 1995

Size

42 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint and ochres on carved wood

Auction

Bonhams, The Morgan Collection, Sydney, 27 August 2024, Lot 48

Provenance

Rodney Gooch, Alice Springs. Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1995. 

Price Realised

$1,400 AUD

Carved wooden puppy by Angelina Pwerle, painted black with large red, orange, yellow and white dots across its body.

Town Puppy 1995

Size

18 cm high, 42 cm wide, 11.5 cm deep

Medium

Acrylic on wood

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, The Peter McMahon Collection, Melbourne, 6 March 2016, Lot 112

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne 1996.

Price Realised

$1,200 AUD

Tall carved wooden ancestral figure by Angelina Pwerle, with a multicoloured dotted torso, ochre-coloured face and red legs.

Ancestor Flower Man 1995

Size

84 cm high

Medium

Acrylic on carved wood

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, The Peter McMahon Collection, Melbourne, 6 March 2016, Lot 110

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne 1996.

Price Realised

$1,100 AUD

Carved wooden wren by Angelina Pwerle, painted yellow and grey with black and white markings across its back and wings.

Wren 1995

Size

25 cm high, 10 cm wide, 9.5 cm deep

Medium

Acrylic on wood

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, The Peter McMahon Collection of Contemporary Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 6 March 2016, Lot 111

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne 1996.

Price Realised

$480 AUD

Angelina Pwerle Value 1996

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of small white, blue, red and ochre dots across a dark ground.

Bush Plum, 1996

Size

185.5 × 187 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Bonhams, Notable Collections: Australian and Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 27 August 2025, Lot 17

Provenance

Rodney Gooch, Alice Springs Niagara Galleries, Melbourne. The Gillespie Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2002.

Price Realised

$13,000 AUD

Painting by Angelina Pwerle showing ten black ancestral figures with ochre-coloured heads, white facial features and ceremonial body markings on a densely patterned grey ground.

Ancestors, 1996

Size

93 × 82 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Bonhams, Important Australian Art, Sydney, 24 August 2026, Lot 43

Provenance

Rodney Gooch, Alice Springs. Niagara Galleries, Melbourne. Private collection, Sydney. Exhib ited: Angeline Pwerle, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 25 February – 22 March 1997, cat. 11.

Price Realised

$1,200 AUD

Tall carved wooden male figure by Angelina Pwerle, painted dark blue-green with white and purple vertical body markings and a simple painted face.

Bush Raisin Man 1996

Size

61 cm high

Medium

Acrylic on carved wood

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, The Peter McMahon Collection of Contemporary Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 6 March 2016, Lot 109

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne 1997.

Price Realised

$650 AUD

Angelina Pwerle Value 1997

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle covered with thousands of tiny ochre, yellow, red and white dots, divided by a broad curving band of dense white dots.

Anookitja (Bush Plum), 1997

Size

150 × 121 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 17 March 2021, Lot 37

Provenance

Delmore Gallery, Alice Springs. Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$12,000 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with countless tiny pale dots forming subtle shifting patterns across a deep blue-black ground.

Bush Plum

Size

183.5 × 174.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Bonhams, Aboriginal Art; Aboriginal Art from The Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves, Sydney, 28 May 2012, Lot 58

Provenance

Painted in 1997. Rodney Gooch, Alice Springs. Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves.

Price Realised

$10,000 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, filled with thousands of tiny red, pink, yellow and ochre dots forming subtle flowing patterns across a dark ground.

Bush Plum, 1997

Size

180 × 177 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Bonhams, Important Australian Art; Sidney Nolan: Selected Works from the Estate of Lady Nolan, Sydney, 17 November 2021, Lot 79

Provenance

Rodney Gooch, Alice Springs. Private collection, Sydney.

Price Realised

$7,500 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with tiny red, yellow, ochre and pale dots forming softly shifting areas across a dark ground.

Bush Plum

Size

176 × 177 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Christies, Australian & International Paintings, Melbourne, 1 May 2000, Lot 13

Provenance

Rodney Gooch, Mulga Boare, Northern Territory. Acquired by the present owners from Niagara Galleries, Melbourne in 1997.

Price Realised

$5,500 AUD

Abstract painting by Angelina Pwerle densely covered with tiny blue, white, red and ochre dots forming irregular cloud-like areas across a dark ground.

Untitled 1997

Size

122 × 91 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 29 July 2003, Lot 367

Provenance

Painted for Delmore Gallery Northern Territory. Private collection San Francisco.

Price Realised

$2,800 AUD

Carved wooden Night Owl by Angelina Pwerle, with a rounded grey head, red and white eye and mottled red, white, grey and black body.

Night Owl – Kula Kul (1997)

Size

49 × 17 × 16 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on wood

Auction

Sotheby’s, The Rae Rothfield Collection, Melbourne, 23 October 2019, Lot 175

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne. Mrs Rae Rothfield, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 19 April 1997.

Price Realised

$500 AUD

Angelina Pwerle Value 1998-1999

Pair of Awelye paintings by Angelina Pwerle, each densely covered with thousands of tiny pale dots forming subtle shifting patterns over dark grey and reddish grounds.
  1. I) Alperre Awelye, 1998; II) Arlperre Awelye, 1999 (pair)

Size

90.5 × 150 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Thomas Vroom Collection, Melbourne, 26 February 2017, Lot 363

Provenance

Not stated in source.

Price Realised

$6,500 AUD

Awelye painting by Angelina Pwerle covered with thousands of extremely fine pale dots forming faint, cloud-like patterns across a dark grey ground.

Arlperre Awelye 1998

Size

149 × 91 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 24 February 2021, Lot 10

Provenance

The Thomas Vroom Collection, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 26 February 2017, lot 363. Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$3,800 AUD

Carved wooden dog by Angelina Pwerle, painted black and covered with large red, ochre, yellow and white dots, with a long body and pointed head.

Dog 1998

Size

13 × 76 × 15 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on wood

Auction

Leonard Joel, Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 24 February 2021, Lot 94

Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$650 AUD

Bush Plum Dreaming painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of minute pale, ochre and muted coloured dots forming subtle patterns across a dark ground.

Bush Plum Dreaming

Size

151.8 × 121.2 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Christies, Australian, International & Contemporary Art, Sydney, 26 August 2003, Lot 237

Provenance

Red Desert Gallery, Queensland. Private collection, South Australia.

Price Realised

$5,500 AUD

Long oval wooden coolamon by Angelina Pwerle, densely painted with small multicoloured dots in white, yellow, blue, red, pink and ochre.

Painted Coolamon, 1999

Size

64 × 21 × 12.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on wood Coolamon

Auction

Bonhams, , Melbourne, 7 July 2020, Lot 36

Provenance

Rodney Gooch, Alice Springs. The Bill Nuttall & Annette Reeves Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$380 AUD

Angelina Pwerle Value 2000-2004

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of tiny pale dots forming rounded and irregular areas across a dark grey ground.

Bush Plum, 2000

Size

122 × 92 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, 8 March 2015, Lot 86

Provenance

Delmore Gallery, Alice Springs.. Arts d’Australie, Paris (inscribed verso). The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, purchased in March 2002.

Price Realised

$15,000 AUD

Plum Dreaming painting by Angelina Pwerle, covered with thousands of tiny dots forming large overlapping fields of blue, ochre, red, green and pink.

Plum Dreaming, 2000

Size

183 × 183 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 6 October 2010, Lot 117

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (cat. 13527V). Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$14,500 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of tiny pale, pink and ochre dots forming softly shifting areas across a warm reddish ground.

Bush Plum 2000

Size

150 × 121.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Colonial to Contemporary, including Important Abor, Sydney, 24 June 2009, Lot 126

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne. Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$5,250 AUD

Plum Story painting by Angelina Pwerle, with thousands of tiny yellow, ochre, pale and blue dots forming irregular areas across a dark elongated canvas.

(Mosquito Bore) Plum Story, 2000

Size

137.5 × 56 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 6 October 2010, Lot 115

Provenance

Collection of Rodney Gooch.

Price Realised

$2,800 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, with thousands of extremely fine pale dots forming subtle irregular patterns across a vivid pink-red ground.

Bush Plum, 2001

Size

196 × 125 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian & International Fine Art, Melbourne, 15 July 2020, Lot 85

Provenance

Rodney Gooch, Alice Springs. Niagara Galleries, Melbourne. The Peter and Renate Nahum Collection of Aboriginal Art, London, acquired from the above in 2002.

Price Realised

$14,500 AUD

Arnekwety Place painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of tiny white, grey and muted red dots forming irregular overlapping areas across a dark ground.

Arnekwety Place VIII 2002

Size

150 × 121.5 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Thomas Vroom Collection, Melbourne, 26 February 2017, Lot 194

Provenance

Delmore Gallery, NT (accompanied by a certificate of authenticity).

Price Realised

$10,000 AUD

Bush Plum Country painting by Angelina Pwerle, with thousands of minute pale dots forming dense, overlapping patterns across a warm red and pink ground.

Bush Plum Country, 2003

Size

180 × 120 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 23 May 2023, Lot 46

Provenance

Painted for Artlore, Alice Springs, 2003 (catalogue number 11-510). Niagara Galleries, Melbourne. Private collection Melbourne, 2004. Private collection, Melbourne, 2012.

Price Realised

$130,000 AUD

Bush Plum Dreaming painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of tiny red, ochre, pale and blue-green dots forming subtle shifting areas across a dark ground.

Bush Plum Dreaming, 2004

Size

175.5 × 120.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian & International Fine Art, Melbourne, 15 July 2020, Lot 86

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso). The Peter and Renate Nahum Collection of Aboriginal Art, London, acquired from the above in 2005.

Price Realised

$15,000 AUD

Figurative painting by Angelina Pwerle showing a large red female figure with white body-paint lines behind bands of colourful wavy patterns.

Women’s Story I 2004

Size

59.5 × 44.5 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Alan Boxer Collection of Aboriginal Art, Books & Music (Art lots only), Melbourne, 19 May 2016, Lot 143

Provenance

Not stated in source.

Price Realised

$550 AUD

Angelina Pwerle Value 2005

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with countless tiny marks in orange, yellow, ochre, white and dark tones forming shifting areas across the canvas.

Bush Plum Story, 2005

Size

150 × 208.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Menzies, Important Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 20 November 2024, Lot 55

Provenance

Mbantua Gallery, Northern Territory (stock no.MB27896). Harold Mitchell Ac, Melbourne. Thence by descent, private collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$34,000 AUD

Bush Plum Dreaming painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of tiny yellow, pink, red and pale dots across a dark ground.

Bush Plum Dreaming circa 2005

Size

122.5 × 90.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 19 October 2025, Lot 198

Provenance

Waterhole Arts, NSW, Cat. No. W200. Private collection, NSW. Private collection, VIC. Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Sydney (accompanied by a certificate of authenticity). Private collection, Melbourne. © Angelina Pwerle/Copyright Agency, 2025.

Price Realised

$5,500 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of tiny pale dots forming irregular clusters and shifting patterns across a deep red ground.

Bush Plum, 2005

Size

57.5 × 89 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Quarterly Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 9 May 2013, Lot 249

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne. Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$3,200 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with countless tiny white and green dots forming softly shifting patterns across a pale ground.

Bush Plum, 2005

Size

127 × 90 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Menzies, Important Australian and International Fine Paintings and Sculpture, Sydney, 6 December 2012, Lot 6

Provenance

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso) . Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$3,000 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, covered with thousands of tiny white dots interspersed with larger yellow, red and ochre marks across a dark grey ground.

Ahakey – Bush Plum Story 2005

Size

90 × 89 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 24 February 2021, Lot 41

Provenance

Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, Northern Territory (accompanied by a certificate of authenticity). Private collection, Brisbane.

Price Realised

$1,300 AUD

Large painting by Angelina Pwerle filled with dense fine marks in orange, red, pink, pale blue and white, forming softly merging fields of colour.

Ariparra, 2005

Size

199 × 135 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Lawsons, Fine Art, Sydney, 24 September 2015, Lot 521

Provenance

Not stated in source.

Price Realised

$950 AUD

Colourful figurative painting by Angelina Pwerle showing five ancestral figures with striped body markings surrounded by densely painted plants and bush foods.

Untitled 2005

Size

90 × 90 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Alan Boxer Collection of Aboriginal Art, Books & Music (Art lots only), Melbourne, 19 May 2016, Lot 142

Provenance

Not stated in source.

Price Realised

$900 AUD

Angelina Pwerle Value 2006-2007

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, with extremely fine pale marks forming subtle cloud-like patterns across a deep blue-grey ground.

Bush Plum, 2006

Size

123.5 × 202.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 4 December 2020, Lot 43

Provenance

Not stated in source.

Price Realised

$30,000 AUD

Bush Plum Dreaming painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with tiny red, orange, pink and blue dots forming shifting fields across a vivid red ground.

Bush Plum Dreaming, 2006

Size

199.5 × 119.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Bonhams, The Morgan Collection, Sydney, 27 August 2024, Lot 47

Provenance

Holmes A?Court Gallery, Perth. Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso). The Morgan Collection, Perth.

Price Realised

$25,000 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, with thousands of minute pale dots forming dense, irregular shapes and flowing areas across a deep red ground.

Bush Plum, c. 2006

Size

120 × 179 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Shapiro Auctioneers, Indigenous Art, Sydney, 15 July 2024, Lot 11

Provenance

Artlore, Alice Springs. Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised

$22,000 AUD

Aharlper Country painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of tiny pink, white, yellow and orange dots across a vivid red ground.

Aharlper Country (2006)

Size

121 × 91.8 cm

Medium

Not stated in source.

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, Australian INdigenous & Oceanic Art featuring works from the Helen Read Collection, Melbourne, 6 June 2016, Lot 91

Provenance

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (2,60065). Corporate collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$3,800 AUD

Large horizontal painting by Angelina Pwerle, with fine red and pink marks forming broad irregular fields punctuated by areas of purple, ochre, green and orange.

Spring Flowers at Arlparra, 2007

Size

150 × 375 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Menzies, Important Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 27 March 2024, Lot 55

Provenance

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne. Private collection, Melbourne. Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 14 November 2007, lot 23. Private collection of Mr Rodney Menzies, Melbourne. Estate of the above.

Price Realised

$55,000 AUD

Colourful painting by Angelina Pwerle showing five ancestral figures in green, yellow, blue, red and purple surrounded by repeated striped designs.

Ancestors 2007

Size

70 × 61 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Alan Boxer Collection of Aboriginal Art, Books & Music (Art lots only), Melbourne, 19 May 2016, Lot 262

Provenance

Not stated in source.

Price Realised

$850 AUD

Angelina Pwerle Value 2008-2012

Black and white Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of tiny white marks forming shifting clusters across a black ground.

Bush Plum Dreaming, 2009

Size

64 × 60 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Shapiro Auctioneers, Indigenous Art, Sydney, 17 March 2026, Lot 26

Provenance

Ironwood Arts, Alice Springs, Outback Aboriginal Art, VIC. Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised

$3,300 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, with countless extremely fine pale marks forming subtle shifting patterns across a deep red ground.

Bush Plum

Size

199 × 118 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Bonhams, Aboriginal Art; Aboriginal Art from The Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves, Sydney, 28 May 2012, Lot 57

Provenance

Painted in 2010. Artlore, Alice Springs. Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves.

Price Realised

$16,000 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of minute white, yellow, red and blue dots forming subtle shifting patterns across a black ground.

Bush Plum, 2011

Size

92 × 91 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Menzies, Important Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 27 March 2024, Lot 95

Provenance

Delmore Gallery, Melbourne (stock no.11A010), Picture Window, Sydney. Private collection, Los Angeles.

Price Realised

$18,000 AUD

Bush Plum painting by Angelina Pwerle, densely covered with thousands of minute yellow, red, pink and pale dots forming subtle shifting fields across a black ground.

Bush Plum, 2011

Size

91.5 × 91.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2025, Lot 57

Provenance

Delmore Gallery, via Alice Springs, Northern Territory Private collection, USA.

Price Realised

$8,000 AUD

Angelina Pwerle Value 2012 – 2019

Ancestral Spirits painting by Angelina Pwerle showing many elongated human-like figures in yellow, blue, green, purple, red and orange, closely arranged across the canvas and decorated with rows of painted marks.

Ancestral Spirits 2015

Size

122 × 93 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

McKenzies Auctioneers, Art and Luxury (Art lots only), Perth, 31 May 2022, Lot 147

Provenance

Not stated in source.

Price Realised

$450 AUD

Anookitja (Bush Plum) by Angelina Pwerle, a dark grey and black painting densely covered with thousands of tiny pale marks forming softly shifting areas across the canvas.

Anookitja (Bush Plum), 2019

Size

150 × 121 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2024, Lot 22

Provenance

Delmore Gallery, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney Private collection, USA.

Price Realised

$56,000 AUD

Anookitja (Bush Plum) by Angelina Pwerle, a red painting covered with extremely fine pale marks that form softly shifting patches and layers across the canvas.

Anookitja (Bush Plum), 2019

Size

151.5 × 151.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2025, Lot 29

Provenance

Painted at Rocket Range, Utopia, via Alice Springs, Northern Territory Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney.

Price Realised

$55,000 AUD

Wild Plum diptych by Angelina Pwerle, two tall dark panels densely covered with thousands of tiny pale dots forming softly shifting, cloud-like patterns.

Wild plum (diptych), 2019

Size

150 × 180 cm (overall); 150 × 90 cm (each panel)

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Art Leven First Nations Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 17 June 2025, Lot 19

Provenance

Delmore gallery, NT cat no. 19G09 & 19G08. Private collection, NSW.

Price Realised

$38,000 AUD

Anookitja (Bush Plum) by Angelina Pwerle, a red painting covered with extremely fine pale marks that form softly shifting patches and layers across the canvas.

Anookitja (Bush Plum), 2019

Size

151.5 × 151.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2025, Lot 29

Provenance

Painted at Rocket Range, Utopia, via Alice Springs, Northern Territory Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney.

Price Realised

$55,000 AUD

About This Artist Value Page

The headline auction statistics at the top of this page — including the number of works offered, sale rate, highest recorded sale and median sale price — are calculated from the auction records reviewed for this artist.

Everything below those figures should be regarded as a curated and subjective selection rather than a complete record of the artist’s auction history.

This is not a database of works sold. For comprehensive Australian art auction records and market data, I recommend the Australian Art sales Digest

I select works primarily to show the variety, development and quality of an artist’s work. I favour works with good-quality images over those represented by small or poor auction photographs, and I naturally include paintings that I find particularly interesting or useful in understanding the artist. Although I try to choose representative examples from different periods, subjects, sizes and price levels, these choices inevitably introduce bias.

The highest auction results also require caution. An artist’s three, four or five strongest results may be for exceptional works that entered Australian or international public collections or attracted unusually strong institutional and collector competition. Such prices should not automatically be regarded as representative of the broader market for that artist.

These pages are part of my continuing education in Aboriginal art and are intended primarily for people who enjoy the art and want to explore the variety and evolution of an artist’s work. Apart from the headline auction statistics, the selection, commentary and interpretation on this page are subjective and should not be relied upon for valuation, investment, insurance, taxation or other commercial purposes.

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