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Boxer Milner value and auction results

Works Offered at Auction: 128
Sale Rate: 57%
Highest Sale: $32,000 AUD
Median Sale Price: $8,000 AUD

This page documents the auction history and market values of Boxer Milner paintings. For his biography, painting style, cultural significance and distinctive representations of Purkitji (Sturt Creek), see the main Boxer Milner Aboriginal artist page.

Boxer Milner paintings have an established secondary market, with the strongest auction results generally achieved by large, visually powerful works from his mature period around the late 1990s and early 2000s. His most desirable paintings are often associated with Purkitji (Sturt Creek) and have strong Warlayirti Artists provenance.

The auction records below show considerable variation according to size, date, composition, provenance and exhibition history. Smaller works have sold for only a few thousand dollars, while major paintings have achieved substantially more. Among the examples documented here are Sturt Creek (1999) at $28,000 AUD, the 2002 Purkitji diptych at $30,000 AUD, and a large Purkitji from 2003 at $32,000 AUD. A 2006 Purkitji measuring 178.5 × 80.5 cm realised $24,000 AUD.

Quality and scale matter, but so do the subject, period, documentation and individual strength of the composition. Works accompanied by original Warlayirti Artists certificates and those with significant gallery, collection or exhibition histories can be particularly attractive to collectors.

The auction results on this page are arranged chronologically so that changes in Boxer Milner’s market and painting style can be compared across his career.

For information about the artist’s life, Sturt Creek Country and the meaning and development of his paintings, see the main Boxer Milner biography and artist page.

If you own a Boxer Milner painting and would like an opinion on its value, or are considering selling it, please send me clear photographs of the front and back, its dimensions, and photographs of any Warlayirti Artists certificate, labels or other provenance. I am happy to give an informal opinion on where the work sits within Milner’s market.

Boxer Milner value 1990-1997

Boxer Milner's Artist's Country (1990), an Aboriginal painting with winding white pathways, concentric bands of coloured dots, circular forms and animal figures across the lower part of the composition.

Purkitji, 1996

Size
75 × 50 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 460

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists (cat. 583/96); Private Collection, NSW. Sold with original art centre documentation.

Price Realised
$1,800 AUD

Boxer Milner's Warnalwirri, West of Billiluna (1991), with densely dotted winding forms and branching lines in ochre, white, blue and brown across the canvas.

Untitled (Warnalwirri, West of Billiluna), 1991

Size
120 × 60 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Bonhams, Important Early Works from the Estate of Sir Sidney Nolan

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), Western Australia (cat. 430/91); 

Price Realised
$8,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Sturt Creek (1993), with interlocking geometric forms and dense dotting in red, pink, blue, yellow, white and brown across a horizontal canvas.

Sturt Creek, 1993

Size
82.5 × 134 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 8 June 2021, Lot 16

Provenance
Mindibungu Community, Billiluna Station, WA; stamped and dated verso ’93; Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, SA; Private Collection, SA.

Price Realised

$8,000 AUD
Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (1996), with a central network of curling brown forms surrounded by angular pink, peach, green and burgundy fields of dense dotting.

Purkitji, 1996

Size
75 × 50 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 460

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists (cat. 583/96); Private Collection, NSW. Sold with original art centre documentation.

Price Realised
$1,800 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Lake Gregory, WA (1997), with branching blue water forms surrounded by densely dotted fields of pink, red, green and yellow representing features around the lake.

Lake Gregory, WA, 1997

Size
120.5 × 80.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2025, Lot 68

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia (cat. 596/97); Private Collection, Melbourne. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$6,400 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Pitilarkayi (1997), with pale pink winding forms, a central circular motif and dense orange, black and white dotting across the canvas.

Pitilarkayi, 1997

Size
90 × 60 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, D+H ONLINE: Australian Fine Art, Melbourne, 9 December 2025, Lot 12

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo, Western Australia (cat. 485/97); Private Collection, Melbourne; thence by descent; Private Collection, Melbourne. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$3,800 AUD

Boxer Milner value 1998-1999

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (Sturt Creek) (1998), with interlocking geometric forms in pink, yellow and white separated by a broad blue and white band across a black ground.

Purkitji (Sturt Creek), 1998

Size
120 × 80 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, 8 March 2015, Lot 66

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 421/98); The Darwin Gallery, Darwin; The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, acquired September 1998.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Road from Wirrimanu to Billiluna (1998), with two horizontal rows of repeated geometric forms in turquoise, pink, brown, black and white on an ochre ground.

Road from Wirrimanu to Billiluna, 1998

Size
150 × 100 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 24 March 2010, Lot 115

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 394/98); Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Private Collection, USA.

Price Realised
$8,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Sturt Creek (1999), with repeated concentric forms and circular centres arranged around a broad blue central field in pink, ochre, green, red, white and black.

Sturt Creek, 1999

Size
180 × 120 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 14 October 2009, Lot 16

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia (cat. 656/99); Hogarth Galleries, Sydney; Private Collection, Sydney. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$28,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Rainbow Serpent at Sturt Creek (1999), with layered curving bands of pink, red, orange, blue, green, black and white surrounding circular waterhole-like forms.

Rainbow Serpent at Sturt Creek, 1999

Size
180 × 120 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 20 October 2008, Lot 134

Provenance
Painted at Billiluna in 1999; Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 392/99A); Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Private Collection, USA.

Price Realised
$24,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Rainbow Dreaming Near Purkitji (Sturt Creek) (1999), with seven circular motifs surrounded by sweeping bands of red, yellow, pink, green, white and ochre dots.

Rainbow Dreaming Near Purkitji (Sturt Creek), 1999

Size
148.5 × 100 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, The Collection of William and Lucy Mora, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 21 July 2010, Lot 11

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 531/99); Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

Price Realised
$16,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Wanarlapirri on Sturt Creek (1999), with sweeping curved bands, large fields of white dots and a central hourglass-shaped geometric form in brown, orange, blue and green.

Wanarlapirri on Sturt Creek, 1999

Size
119 × 179 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 31 October 2006, Lot 60

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists (cat. 114/99).

Price Realised
$13,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Rainbow Dreaming Near Purwirr (Sturt Creek) (1999), with seven circular waterhole motifs surrounded by sweeping bands of red, ochre, yellow, white and black dots.

Rainbow Dreaming Near Purwirr (Sturt Creek), 1999

Size
149 × 100.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 448

Provenance
Painted in 1999 for Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 531/99); Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$7,750 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Sturt Creek Near Billiluna (1999), with a white-edged creek form, black silt band and repeated white hooked ceremonial designs surrounded by dense ochre, pink and brown dotting.

Sturt Creek Near Billiluna, 1999

Size
120 × 80 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Phillips Auctioneers, Modern & Contemporary Art & Photography; Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 30 July 2001, Lot 194

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, WA; Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised
$4,600 AUD

Boxer Milner value 2000-2001

Boxer Milner’s Oolaign (2000), with four horizontal bands of dense dotting and repeated curling forms in turquoise, white, ochre, pink, orange, blue and purple.

Oolaign, 2000

Size
150 × 100 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Bonhams, The Laverty Collection: Contemporary Australian Art, Sydney, 24 March 2013, Lot 11

Provenance
Painted at Billiluna, Western Australia; Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), 

Price Realised
$16,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Water Channels at Sturt Creek (2000), with long parallel bands of pink, red, orange and white divided by a dark blue line representing the main channel of Sturt Creek.

Water Channels at Sturt Creek, 2000

Size
150 × 74.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 25 July 2005, Lot 249

Provenance
Painted for Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia (cat. 964/00); 

Price Realised
$15,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Untitled (2000), with repeated curling yellow forms arranged across horizontal fields of deep blue, turquoise and burgundy with dense dotting.

Untitled, 2000

Size
100 × 50 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, Spinifex and Sand: The Tony Norton and Jann Williams Collection of Aboriginal Fine Art, Melbourne, 4 April 2016, Lot 32

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia (cat. 818/00); Spinifex & Sand Collection, Tasmania.

Price Realised
$4,600 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Kiki (2000), with white intersecting linear forms connecting two circular motifs and dividing fields of red, orange and turquoise dense dotting.

Kiki, 2000

Size
150 × 75 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Auction
Shapiro Auctioneers, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 28 February 2017, Lot 18

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, WA (cat. 731/00); The Collection of Penny Coleing. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$2,200 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Palleyarang (2001), with intersecting yellow and white lines dividing the canvas into irregular triangular fields densely dotted in pink, red, orange and purple.

Palleyarang, 2001

Size
150.5 × 100.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 28 June 2011, Lot 32

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists (cat. 491/01); Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$20,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Kururrungka (2001), with nested rectangular bands of purple, white, red and ochre filled with dense dotting across the canvas.

Kururrungka, 2001

Size
150 × 100 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2025, Lot 31

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia (cat. 43/01); Palya Art, Darwin; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired in 2001.

Price Realised
$20,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Muyun (2001), with repeated white and red hooked forms arranged across rectangular fields of yellow, ochre, burgundy and red, divided by strong white and black lines.

Muyun, 2001

Size
149.5 × 75 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Art Leven, First Nations Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 12 November 2024, Lot 33

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, WA (cat. 384/01); Private Collection, WA. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised

$7,000 AUD

 

Boxer Milner’s Untitled (2001), with dark blue branching lines, circles, triangles and diamond forms crossing densely dotted fields of yellow, pink and orange.

Untitled, 2001

Size
75 × 50 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, The Collection of William and Lucy Mora, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 21 July 2010, Lot 92

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 490/01); The Collection of William and Lucy Mora, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$4,800 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Untitled (2001), with yellow angular lines, a winding blue form and brown hooked lines dividing densely dotted fields of blue, pink, grey and ochre.

Untitled, 2001

Size
80.5 × 80 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Christie’s, Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 August 2005, Lot 213

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia (cat. 1017/01); On-shore Art Galleries, Melbourne; Corporate Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$4,000 AUD

Boxer Milner value 2002-2003

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (Diptych) (2002), showing two tall panels divided into rectangular compartments containing blue centres surrounded by yellow, red, brown and dense white dotting.

Purkitji (Diptych), 2002

Size
150 × 75 cm each panel

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, London, 14 March 2018, Lot 68

Provenance
Painted at Billiluna, Western Australia, in 2002; Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu, Balgo Hills (cat. 1202/02 and 1201/02); The Laverty Collection, acquired December 2003; Bonhams, The Laverty Collection: Contemporary Australian Art, Sydney, 24 March 2013, Lot 20; Dennis and Debra Scholl Collection, Miami.

Price Realised
$30,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Untitled (2002), with six brightly coloured rectangular fields containing concentric circles and repeated white hooked forms, divided by a horizontal blue band.

Untitled, 2002

Size
180 × 120 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Bonhams, The Laverty Collection: Contemporary Australian Art, Sydney, 24 March 2013, Lot 142

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), Western Australia (cat. 150/02); The Laverty Collection, Sydney, acquired March 2002.

Price Realised

$16,000 AUD

 

Boxer Milner’s Untitled (2002), with interlocking blue, red and yellow geometric lines, repeated hooked forms and three rectangular motifs arranged across a densely dotted composition.

Untitled, 2002

Size
120 × 80 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Christie’s, Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 August 2005, Lot 160

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia (cat. 1270/02); Onshore Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$10,000 AUD
Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2002), with repeated white hooked and angular forms arranged over densely dotted yellow fields, divided into four sections by strong blue and white lines.

Purkitji, 2002

Size
119.5 × 80 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 29 October 2023, Lot 2

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo, WA (cat. 760/02); Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2002. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$7,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2002), with a central white double-cross representing the main channels of Sturt Creek, surrounded by repeated hooked tributary forms in pink, red and yellow against a deep blue ground.

Purkitji, 2002

Size
117 × 81 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian + International Fine Art; Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 November 2012, Lot 155

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 993/02); Private Collection, New South Wales. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2003), divided into six rectangular panels filled with contrasting networks of angular lines, grids and geometric forms in red, blue, orange, pink and white.

Purkitji, 2003

Size
180 × 120 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, The Elizabeth Jones Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 14 August 2007, Lot 18

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (reference no. 792/03). Accompanied by a certificate of authentication.

Price Realised
$32,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2003), divided into four fields of dense white and red dotting crossed by black geometric lines and separated by strong dark blue bands.

Purkitji, 2003

Size
150 × 100 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, London, 14 March 2018, Lot 69

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists (cat. 2042/03).

Price Realised
$30,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Yakarn – The Moon (2003), with repeated blue and white crescent-like forms scattered across densely dotted fields of blue, white and red.

Yakarn – The Moon, 2003

Size
150 × 100 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 20 July 2009, Lot 55

Provenance
Painted for Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, in 2003 (cat. 109/03); Short Street Gallery, Broome at Art House Gallery, Sydney; Private Collection. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$17,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Untitled (2003), with orange and red geometric grids arranged above and below a strong horizontal white band, filled with dense dotting in dark blue, brown, pink and red.

Untitled, 2003

Size
119 × 81 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Joel Fine Art, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 5 June 2007, Lot 48

Provenance
Painted in 2003 for Warlayirti Artists at Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), cat. 2056/03; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$13,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (Sturt Creek) (2003), with blue and yellow dotted bands above contrasting black, red and ochre geometric fields divided by strong white and black lines.

Purkitji (Sturt Creek), 2003

Size
150 × 75 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 13 October 2008, Lot 32

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia (cat. 476/03); Private Collection, Broome; Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 5 October 2004, Lot 60; Tineriba Fine Arts, Adelaide; Private Collection, Adelaide. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$7,800 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2003), with a strong vertical blue channel dividing repeated horizontal blue bands outlined in white and red across the canvas.

Purkitji, 2003

Size
120 × 80 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 25 March 2026, Lot 71

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia (cat. 650/03); Private Collection, New South Wales.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2003), showing rows of irregular rectangular forms outlined with dots in white, red, yellow and orange against dark blue, green and earthy fields.

Purkitji, 2003

Size
150 × 75 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 76

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists (cat. 476/03); Tineriba Gallery; Private Collection, SA.

Price Realised
$5,000 AUD

Boxer Milner value 2004-2005

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2004), divided by a strong black vertical line, with networks of angular tributary-like forms across pink and purple fields on the left and dark blue with red lines on the right.

Purkitji, 2004

Size
150.5 × 101.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 20 July 2009, Lot 117

Provenance
Painted at Billiluna in 2004; Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 28/04); Estate of Graeme Galt. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$8,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2004), composed of interlocking rectangular fields of red, pink, purple and pale blue separated by strong yellow lines.

Purkitji, 2004

Size
100 × 50 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 25 May 2022, Lot 78

Provenance
Painted in early 2004 at Billiluna, Western Australia, for Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 27/04); Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs; David Larwill, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$7,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Untitled (2004), featuring horizontal bands of dense black dotting separated by blue lines above bands of yellow, orange and deep blue.

Untitled, 2004

Size
60 × 30 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, The Collection of William and Lucy Mora, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 21 July 2010, Lot 91

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 1196/04); The Collection of William and Lucy Mora, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$3,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2005), with a central field of orange geometric forms outlined in white, surrounded by a larger red field filled with pink dotted rectangular and hooked designs.

Purkitji, 2005

Size
149.5 × 99.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Menzies, Important Australian & International Art featuring Highlights From the ANZ Art Collection, Sydney, 29 November 2023, Lot 124

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation, Western Australia (stock 1358/05); Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2005; Sandra & Peter Geyer, Melbourne; Menzies, Sydney, 9 August 2018, Lot 9; Company Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised
$12,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2005), showing two large dark rectangular fields crossed by angular blue channels and surrounded by orange, red and yellow dotted patterns.

Purkitji, 2005

Size
120 × 80 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, Aboriginal Art; Aboriginal Art from The Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves, Sydney, 28 May 2012, Lot 151

Provenance
Painted in 2005; Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills), Western Australia (cat. 470/05); Short St Gallery, Broome; Private Collection.

Price Realised
$12,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2005), divided vertically into purple and red dotted fields containing large white oval, curved and elongated forms.

Purkitji, 2005

Size
120 × 80 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, The Elizabeth Jones Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 14 August 2007, Lot 32

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (reference 584/05); Art Mob, Alice Springs (cat. AM 2899/05). Accompanied by a certificate of authentication.

Price Realised
$8,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (Sturt Creek) (2005), featuring interlocking angular pathways outlined in white, black and pink around fields of blue, green, yellow and orange, with a concentric circle near the centre.

Purkitji (Sturt Creek), 2005

Size
150 × 75 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, 8 March 2015, Lot 68

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 872/05); Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney; The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, acquired November 2005.

Price Realised
$8,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2005), showing irregular pink, red and orange geometric fields separated by broad black and white pathways, with dense dotted grids and hooked forms throughout.

Purkitji

Size
120 × 80 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 28 June 2011, Lot 85

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists (cat. 776/05).

Price Realised
$6,750 AUD

Boxer Milner value 2006-2007

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2006), a long horizontal painting filled with dense rectangular grids of pink, red, purple and white separated by yellow lines.

Purkitji, 2006

Size
178.5 × 80.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 7 June 2011, Lot 106

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia (stock 258/06); Private Collection, New South Wales.

Price Realised
$24,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2006), a long horizontal painting of densely dotted red-brown rectangular fields divided by an irregular network of thick white lines.

Purkitji, 2006

Size
180 × 80 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Art Leven, First Nations Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 17 June 2025, Lot 6

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, WA (cat. 22/06); Utopia Art, NSW; Private Collection, NSW; Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Sydney, October 2012, Lot 10; Private Collection, NSW. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$16,000 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2006), with parallel orange and dark purple dotted bands enclosed by white lines and surrounded by white rectangular forms on a vivid yellow ground.

Purkitji, 2006

Size
90 × 60 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2024, Lot 47

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia (cat. 652/06); Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney; Private Collection, Sydney. Accompanied by a copy of a Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$4,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2007), with a broad blue central field containing repeated green hooked forms, surrounded by green dotted areas and orange and blue geometric motifs.

Purkitji, 2007

Size
120.5 × 60 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 14 October 2009, Lot 156

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills (cat. 941/07); Private Collection, Melbourne. Accompanied by a Warlayirti Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$5,500 AUD

Boxer Milner’s Purkitji (2007), with a large blue central field surrounded by repeated black hooked and spiral forms set against blue, green, orange and yellow dotted areas.

Purkitji, 2007

Size
100 × 50 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, Spinifex and Sand: The Tony Norton and Jann Williams Collection of Aboriginal Fine Art, Melbourne, 4 April 2016, Lot 33

Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia (cat. 635/07); Short Street Gallery, Western Australia; Spinifex & Sand Collection, Tasmania. Accompanied by Warlayirti Artists and Short Street Gallery documentation.

Price Realised
$3,800 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.

All images featured in this article are presented strictly for educational and informational purposes.

This website may include copyrighted material for which specific authorization has not been obtained from the copyright owner.

All such images are presumed to be the intellectual property of the respective artist or their estate, and are used in accordance with principles of fair dealing or fair use under applicable copyright law.

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