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Gloria Petyarre value artworks and auction results

Works Offered at Auction: 1262
Sale Rate: 55%
Highest Sale: $65,000 AUD
Median Sale Price: $1,400 AUD

This is a support page for the main Gloria petyarre Bigraphy and painting style page. It looks specifically at her secondary-market auction results and the characteristics that can affect the value of an individual painting.

Gloria Petyarre has a substantial secondary market, with more than 1,200 works recorded at auction. Prices vary enormously depending on quality, size, period, subject, provenance and the strength of the individual composition.

Her strongest results have generally been achieved by large, visually powerful works with good provenance. Bush Medicine, 2004, measuring 164 × 354 cm, sold for a $65,000 AUD hammer price in 2007. Earlier works can also command strong prices. Untitled (Awelye-yellow), 1995,

The wider market is considerably more affordable. Many Bush Medicine Leaves and Mountain Devil Lizard paintings sell for hundreds to several thousand dollars, including some relatively large works. This makes quality, date, provenance and visual strength particularly important when assessing a Gloria Petyarre painting. Size and subject alone are not reliable indicators of value.

The auction records below illustrate the considerable range of Gloria Petyarre’s market and the types of works that have attracted the strongest prices.

Gloria Petyarre value 1990-1993

Black painting filled with symmetrical red-brown ceremonial forms, each outlined by rows of small white dots and parallel white dotted lines.

Untitled, 1990

Size

129.5 × 128.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer on canvas

Auction

Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 24 October 2021, Lot 99

Provenance

Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$3,200 AUD

Oval painting by Gloria Petyarre with red-brown ceremonial forms, curved bands and seed-like shapes covered and outlined with dense white dots.

Grass Seed, 1990

Size

60 × 90 cm (oval)

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Shapiro Auctioneers, Modern + Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 10 December 2003, Lot 162

Price Realised

$1,200 AUD

Square painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with closely spaced curving rows of white, yellow, orange and pink dots flowing across a dark ground.

Awely(e) (Ceremonial Body Paint Design), 1991

Size

79 × 79 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction

Newstead Art Auctions, The Terence J Gilbert Collection of Aboriginal Art , USA, New York, 31 October 2025|Lot 51

Provenance

Mulga Bore Artists, Utopia, NT, Cat No. 79-791 The Australia Gallery (formerly the A Gallery), New York (David Betz).

Price Realised

$2,800 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with hundreds of curved dotted lines in pink, yellow, white and ochre radiating around a small central diamond.

Angertla, Mountain Devil Lizard, 1992

Size

145 × 165 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Kelton Collection – Indigenous Art at Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 11 April 2022, Lot 192

Provenance

Utopia Art, Sydney. The Kelton Foundation, United States of America, acquired 1994.

Price Realised

$4,800 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with flowing red bands edged by fine white dots, curving inward from four directions around a central star-like form.

Mountain Devil Awelye, 1992

Size

150 × 121 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, Aboriginal Art From the Collection of John W. Kluge; The Paul Greenburg Collection, Melbourne, 6 June 2012, Lot 33

Price Realised

$4,200 AUD

Circular painting by Gloria Petyarre divided into eight radiating sections filled with curved rows of yellow, pink, white and blue-grey dots.

Mountain Devil Awelye, 1992

Size

diameter: 100 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 69

Provenance

Delmore Gallery: Cat. no. 92B12. Cooee Aboriginal Art. Private Collection, NSW.

Price Realised

$4,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with closely spaced vertical wavy bands of red, pink, yellow, white and dark dots running from top to bottom.

Mountain Devil Awelye, 1992

Size

150.5 × 121 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer on canvas

Auction

Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 17 May 2026, Lot 171

Provenance

Private collection. Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1998, Lot 304. Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$2,600 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with closely spaced white curved lines arranged in adjoining rectangular fields against a dark red-brown ground.

Mountain Devil Awelye, 1993

Size

150 × 91 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 242

Provenance

Commissioned by Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory.

Price Realised

$4,800 AUD

Gloria Petyarre value 1994-1995

Painting by Gloria Petyarre showing hundreds of loose yellow, ochre and dark brown leaf-shaped brush marks scattered across a brown ground.

Leaves, 1994

Size

143.5 × 91 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Phillips Auctioneers, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 24 July 2000, Lot 85

Provenance

Tineriba Tribal Gallery certificate

Price Realised

$5,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with red ceremonial shapes, curved bands and U-shaped forms outlined by yellow dots against a densely dotted dark ground.

Women’s Ceremony, 1994

Size

44.5 × 61 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 31 May 2005, Lot 330

Provenance

Aboriginal Desert Art Gallery, Alice Springs. Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised

$1,600 AUD

Square painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with bold yellow parallel lines that curve and change direction across a dark red-brown ground.

Untitled (Awelye-yellow), 1995

Size

182.9 × 182.9 cm

Medium

Acrylic on polyester

Auction

Heritage Auctions, Important Australian Art from The Collection of Sir James D. Wolfensohn KBE AO (Unreserved), Dallas, 28 March 2025, Lot 31008

Provenance

Tamarisque Fine Art, NSW, Australia. Utopia Art, Sydney, Australia. Allen, Allen, & Hemsley, New York.

Price Realised

$35,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with dense flowing clusters of short multicoloured brush marks in purple, blue, yellow, pink, green and white on a dark ground.

Alpita (Wildflowers), 1995

Size

185.5 × 108 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Phillips Auctioneers, 20th Century Art & Design, Sydney, 10 May 1998, Lot 38

Price Realised

$4,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with interlocking curved bands of fine white and ochre dots forming rhythmic wave-like patterns on a dark red ground.

Mountain Devil Lizard,’, 1995

Size

188 × 149 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Davidson Auctions, Australian & International Art, Sydney, 22 May 2022, Lot 380

Provenance

Utopia Art Sydney #GP24.3.95). Copy of original invoice provided.

Price Realised

$2,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with closely spaced wavy orange lines flowing across a black ground and divided diagonally by a broad curved red and pink band.

Awelye, 1995

Size

152 × 122 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Davidson Auctions, Estate & Collector, Sydney, 2 June 2019, Lot 350

Provenance

Ex Cooee Gallery, ex Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands. Commissioned by Delmore, cat #95L20.

Price Realised

$650 AUD

Gloria Petyarre value 1996-1997

Large painting by Gloria Petyarre with overlapping pink, ochre, yellow and brown fields covered by looping lines, splashes and scattered dots.

Bush Medicine Dreaming, 1996

Size

202 × 178 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction

Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), The Rod Menzies Estate , Indigenous and Oceanic Art Collection , Part I, Sydney|8 November 2023|Lot 26

Provenance

Dacou Gallery, SA Cat No. DG01749. Flinders Lane Gallery, Vic. Private Collection, Vic. Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, NSW, May 2006, Lot No. 90. Menzies Estate Collection, Vic.

Price Realised

$15,000 AUD

Long horizontal painting by Gloria Petyarre covered with dense, softly blended fields of tiny white, yellow, orange, red and brown marks.

Bush Medicine, 1996

Size

84 × 176 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 274

Provenance

Mbantua: Cat. no. MB3173. Private Collection, NT.

Price Realised

$5,500 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with hundreds of curved leaf-like forms painted in yellow, orange and olive green against a dark ground.

Bush Medicine Leaves, 1996

Size

88 × 116 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, Sunday Art Auction, Melbourne, 5 December 2010, Lot 180

Provenance

Outback Aboriginal Art, Victoria. Private collection Melbourne.

Price Realised

$1,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with broad curved and vertical bands of yellow, olive green and pink brushstrokes arranged in separate groups against a black ground.

Women’s Ceremony Body Paint, 1996

Size

79.5 × 54 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Gibson’s, Summer Art Online, Melbourne, 17 February 2026, Lot 64

Provenance

Corbally Stourton Contemporary Art, London. Private collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$650 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with large interlocking red curved forms filled with black and edged by fine rows of white dots.

Mountain Devil Lizard, 1997

Size

91.5 × 61 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art and a Collection of New Ireland Malagan Sculptures, Melbourne, 27 June 2000, Lot 123

Price Realised

$2,800 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with thousands of elongated yellow, ochre and brown leaf-like brush marks flowing in different directions across a dark ground.

Bush Medicine (1997)

Size

110.5 × 88.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, The Peter Elliott Collection, Day 2., Sydney, 31 August 2015, Lot 294

Provenance

Rodney Gooch, Northern Territory. Utopia Art, Sydney.

Price Realised

$1,800 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre covered with thousands of tiny white, yellow, pink and ochre dots scattered densely across a dark brown ground.

Mountain Devil Dreaming, 1997

Size

59 × 68 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Sonia Heitlinger Collection of Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 February 2018, Lot 7

Price Realised

$1,700 AUD

Gloria Petyarre value 1998-1999

Long horizontal painting by Gloria Petyarre with looping ochre, black and blue lines sweeping over dense fields of small multicoloured dots on a brown ground.

Atnangkere Growth, 1998

Size

122 × 279.5 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 19 October 2025, Lot 199

Price Realised

$6,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with a dense network of intersecting yellow, red and purple lines over patterned fields of fine yellow and white dots on a dark ground.

Arnkerrthe (Mountain Devil Dreaming), 1998

Size

175.5 × 171 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 6 October 2010, Lot 192

Provenance

Painted in the Utopia region of central Australia. Private collection, United States of America.

Price Realised

$4,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with overlapping curved blocks containing parallel white, orange, yellow and red lines against a dark ground.

Body Paint Designs, 1998

Size

122 × 91.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Quarterly Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 10 November 2011, Lot 289

Price Realised

$1,800 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with irregular white, ochre, red and pink shapes formed from thousands of tiny dots across a dark brown ground.

Mountain Devil Dreaming,’, 1998

Size

127 × 76 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Davidson Auctions, Australian & International Art, Sydney, 5 June 2010, Lot 201

Price Realised

$475 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with intersecting orange and pale grey lines crossing a dark ground covered with thousands of fine white and blue dots.

Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, 1999

Size

120 × 90 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 175

Provenance

Dacou Gallery: Cat. no. DG02174. Private Collection, SA.

Price Realised

$7,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with broad curving black bands bordered by repeated short pink, orange and blue-grey brushstrokes.

Awelye for Arnkerrthe, 1999

Size

90 × 60 cm

Medium

Acrylic on belgian linen

Auction

ArtCurial, Art Aborigine Australien Collection Peter Los, Paris, 7 July 2008, Lot 5

Provenance

—

Price Realised

$3,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with large curving bands of white, yellow, green, blue and purple dots arranged in contrasting sections on a red-brown ground.

Mountain Devil Awelye, 1999

Size

150 × 121 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Thomas Vroom Collection, Melbourne, 26 February 2017, Lot 347

Provenance

Delmore Gallery, NT

Price Realised

$1,300 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with overlapping curved forms outlined in pink and crossed by short parallel strokes of blue, purple, orange and red.

Arnkerrthe (Mountain Devil Dreaming), 1999

Size

195 × 193.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, Fine Art Auction, Melbourne, 19 March 2013, Lot 12

Provenance

Private Collection, USA.

Price Realised

$1,150 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with flowing clusters of short curved strokes in yellow, purple, red and pink against a black ground.

Mountain Devil Dreaming, 1999

Size

95 × 58 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Davidson Auctions, Estate & Collector (Art lots only), Sydney, 11 July 2021, Lot 309

Price Realised

$650 AUD

Gloria Petyarre value 2000-2003

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with an intricate web of bright red looping lines over layers of pale blue, yellow and dark curved forms.

Ahnkerrthe, 2000

Size

176 × 178 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Joel Fine Art, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 5 June 2007, Lot 55

Provenance

Painted in 2000 collection of gabrielle pizzi, Melbourne. Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$26,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with thousands of short red, purple, pink and pale blue brush marks flowing in curved, overlapping bands across a dark ground.

Alpite (Bush Medicine Wildflowers), 2000

Size

115 × 107.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Quarterly Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 21 November 2013, Lot 110

Provenance

Red Desert Gallery, Queensland.

Price Realised

$1,800 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre covered with thousands of minute ochre, brown and occasional white dots forming subtle swirling patterns across a dark ground.

Mountain Devil Dreaming, 2000

Size

75.5 × 70.5 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Sonia Heitlinger Collection of Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 February 2018, Lot 81

Price Realised

$1,100 AUD

Large painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with thousands of fine yellow, ochre, green and brown leaf-like strokes flowing in broad wave-like bands across the canvas.

Untitled (Leaves), 2001

Size

219 × 180 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, D+H ONLINE: Fine Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 28 May 2024, Lot 4

Provenance

Commissioned by Rodney Gooch in Alice Springs, 2001. Private collection Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney (label attached verso). Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2006.

Price Realised

$16,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with broad interlocking fields of green, white, red and blue short brushstrokes flowing in curved bands across the canvas.

Untitled, 2001

Size

180 × 110 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, The Elizabeth Jones Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 14 August 2007, Lot 23

Provenance

Utopia Art, Sydney.

Price Realised

$10,000 AUD

Large black-and-white painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with thousands of short white leaf-like strokes flowing in dense swirling bands across a black ground.

Bush Medicine, 2002

Size

183 × 183 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction

Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 11 October 2022, Lot 38

Provenance

Tingari Arts, NSW, Cat No. KGP 02012 Private Collection, NSW.

Price Realised

$19,000 AUD

Black-and-white painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with overlapping curved forms containing closely spaced parallel black lines, creating a dense web-like pattern.

Mountain Devil, 2002

Size

120 × 90 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, A Private Collection of Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 28 August 2026, Lot 52

Provenance

Commissioned at Utopia by Simon Turner International (.

Price Realised

$1,500 AUD

Bush Medicine, c. 2003

Size

190.5 × 123 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas (ready to hang)

Auction

Lawsons, Australian Indigenous Art, Sydney, 26 May 2025, Lot 570

Provenance

purchased at Savah Gallery.

Price Realised

$7,000 AUD

Large black-and-white painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with thousands of fine leaf-like strokes flowing in dense swirling currents across the canvas.

Alpite Bush Medicine Wild Flowers, 2003

Size

180 × 150 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Gibson’s, Australian & International Art including Property from the Rio Tinto Collection, Melbourne, 14 October 2019, Lot 122

Price Realised

$3,400 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with broad white, pink, grey and red leaf-like brushstrokes sweeping in dense, overlapping currents across the canvas.

Bush Medicine, 2003

Size

122 × 91 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, Fine Art Auction, Melbourne, 17 June 2014, Lot 55

Provenance

—

Price Realised

$2,400 AUD

Gloria Petyarre value 2004

Very wide painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with thousands of white, ochre, pink and grey leaf-like strokes flowing in broad swirling currents across the canvas.

Bush Medicine, 2004

Size

164 × 354 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 58

Provenance

Dacou Gallery: Cat. no. 06870. Private Collection, SA.

Price Realised

$65,000 AUD

Large black-and-white painting by Gloria Petyarre filled with countless fine leaf-like strokes flowing in broad, shifting currents across the canvas.

Untitled, 1990

Size

129.5 × 128.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer on canvas

Auction

Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 24 October 2021, Lot 99

Provenance

Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$3,200 AUD

Black-and-white painting by Gloria Petyarre with broad sweeping white and grey brush marks crossing, overlapping and curving across a black ground.

Painting with Mop, 2004

Size

120 × 90 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 172

Provenance

Commissioned directly from the artist. Private Collection, Qld.

Price Realised

$9,000 AUD

Painting by Gloria Petyarre with broad sweeping strokes of coral pink, pale blue and grey crossing and overlapping across a black ground.

Painting with Mop, 2004

Size

120 × 90 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 169

Provenance

Commissioned directly from the artist. Wooloongabba Art Gallery. Simon Turner Fine Art: Cat. no. WAG020004. Fire-Works Gallery. Private Collection, Qld.

Price Realised

$3,200 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting filled with hundreds of overlapping red, pink and purple looping lines swirling across a dark black ground.

Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, 2004

Size

122 × 122 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 24 February 2021, Lot 40

Provenance

Tingari Arts, Alice Springs, Northern Territory (.

Price Realised

$2,400 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting covered with overlapping loops of pale pink, lavender, purple and white against a dark ground.

Mountain Lizard, 2004

Size

120.5 × 78.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Quarterly Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 13 February 2013, Lot 248

Price Realised

$1,800 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of thousands of fine ochre-yellow leaf-shaped marks flowing in swirling currents across a pale blue-green ground.

Bush Medicine Leaves, 2004

Size

134 × 90 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Davidson Auctions, Estate & Collector: Pictures, Sydney, 13 October 2024, Lot 267

Provenance

Art Mob Pty Ltd, Hobart cat #AM1915/04

Price Realised

$900 AUD

Gloria Petyarre value 2005-2006

Gloria Petyarre painting filled with hundreds of overlapping yellow-green and purple curling loops against a dark ground.

Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, 2005

Size

115 × 212 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen canvas

Auction

Cornette de Saint Cyr, Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art – The Collection of Arnaud Serval, Paris, 9 May 2011, Lot 15

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist.

Price Realised

$15,000 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of thousands of orange, ochre, pink and brown leaf-shaped brush marks flowing in dense swirling patterns.

Bush Medicine, 2005

Size

120 × 122 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Gibson’s, The Alison Kelly Collection of Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 8 May 2023, Lot 27

Provenance

DACOU Gallery, Adelaide.

Price Realised

$3,800 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting filled with hundreds of overlapping white, cream, yellow and orange curling loops across a warm ochre-red ground.

Mountain Devil Lizard, 2005

Size

201 × 111.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Sydney, 16 August 2012, Lot 240

Price Realised

$1,500 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting densely covered with thousands of small pink, mauve and ochre leaf-shaped brush marks flowing in swirling patterns.

Bush Medicine, 2006

Size

206 × 138.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, Fine Art, Melbourne, 23 November 2021, Lot 128

Provenance

Aranda Aboriginal Art, Melbourne 2006

Price Realised

$6,500 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting densely filled with thousands of pale green leaf-shaped brush marks flowing and swirling across a deep blue ground.

Leaves (Bush Medicine Dreaming)’, 2006

Size

153 × 190 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Davidson Auctions, Australian & International Art, Sydney, 3 September 2017, Lot 214

Provenance

Muk Muk Aboriginal Art (cat #AEPITGA9270 MM).

Price Realised

$1,500 AUD

Gloria Petyarre value 2007-2008

Gloria Petyarre painting densely covered with thousands of small white, ochre and brown leaf-shaped brush marks flowing in swirling currents.

Leaf Dreaming, 2007

Size

207 × 205 × 3 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen (ready to hang)

Auction

Lawsons, Australian Indigenous Art, Sydney, 24 November 2025, Lot 5034

Provenance

—

Price Realised

$5,000 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting filled with dense turquoise, blue and pale leaf-shaped brush marks flowing in swirling patterns across a dark ground.

Bush Medicine Leaves, 2007

Size

203.5 × 136 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Menzies, Important Australian and International Fine Art, Sydney, 26 March 2015, Lot 248

Provenance

Galleries Direct, Sydney. Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$4,400 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting composed of thousands of overlapping white and grey looping brush marks across a dark ground.

Mountain Devil, 2007

Size

146 × 122 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, Fine Australian Art, Designer Furniture and Antiques from the Collection of Peter and Divonne Holmes a’Court, Sydney, 19 August 2012, Lot 445

Provenance

DACOU Aboriginal Art, Adelaide. Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$2,400 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of dense red, white, grey and brown leaf-shaped brush marks flowing in swirling patterns across a black ground.

Medicine Leaves, 2007

Size

88.5 × 117.5 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 27 October 2024, Lot 165

Provenance

Muk Muk, Alice Springs (certificate of authenticity accompanies this lot).

Price Realised

$1,900 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of pale blue and white leaf-shaped brushstrokes flowing in layered, sweeping patterns across the canvas.

Bush Medicine Leaves C., 2008

Size

69 × 120 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, Fine Art Auction, Melbourne, 23 June 2015, Lot 225

Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$2,000 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of flowing white curved brushstrokes forming dense overlapping patterns across a reddish-brown ground.

Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, 2008

Size

90 × 30 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Gibson’s, Summer Art Online, Melbourne, 17 February 2026, Lot 242

Provenance

Boomerang Art, Gold Coast (.

Price Realised

$1,200 AUD

Gloria Petyarre value 2009-2010

Gloria Petyarre painting of thousands of green leaf-shaped brushstrokes flowing in dense swirling patterns across a dark ground.

Sacred Bush Medicine Leaves, 2009

Size

150 × 120 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen canvas

Auction

Cornette de Saint Cyr, Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art – The Collection of Arnaud Serval, Paris, 9 May 2011, Lot 18

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist.

Price Realised

$10,000 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of densely overlapping violet, lavender and white looping brushstrokes against a dark ground.

Mountain Devil Lizard, 2009

Size

120 × 150 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Quarterly Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 16 August 2012, Lot 141

Price Realised

$3,800 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of overlapping white, pink, red and orange looping brushstrokes densely covering a dark ground.

Mountain Devil Lizard, 2009

Size

120.5 × 120.5 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Quarterly Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 15 November 2012, Lot 142

Price Realised

$2,000 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of thousands of pale blue and white leaf-shaped brushstrokes flowing in dense swirling patterns across a dark ground.

Bush Medicine Leaves, 2010

Size

200 × 150 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Lawsons, Fine Art, Sydney, 12 April 2018, Lot 550

Price Realised

$1,600 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of overlapping turquoise, green and yellow looping brushstrokes densely covering a dark ground.

Thorny Devil Lizard, 2010

Size

78 × 124 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 29 October 2023, Lot 254

Provenance

Central Aboriginal Artists, Alice Springs (.

Price Realised

$1,100 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of overlapping violet, orange, pink, cream and white looping brushstrokes filling the canvas.

Mountain Devil Dreaming, 2010

Size

49 × 69 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

McKenzies Auctioneers, Perth, 18 May 2021, Lot 105

Price Realised

$400 AUD

Gloria Petyarre value 2011-2016

Gloria Petyarre painting of dense blue, white and ochre leaf-shaped brushstrokes flowing in rhythmic swirling patterns across a dark ground.

Bush Medicine Leaves, 2011

Size

155 × 105 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen (ready to hang)

Auction

Lawsons, Australian Indigenous Art, Sydney, 25 August 2025, Lot 5072

Provenance

Commissioned by Australian Dreamtime Art at Alice Springs in 2011.

Price Realised

$1,900 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of thousands of pale blue, cream and white leaf-shaped brushstrokes swirling across a dark ground.

Bush Medicine Leaves,’, 2012

Size

157 × 99 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen

Auction

Evans Hastings Valuers & Auctioneers, Aboriginal Art, Online, 27 March 2019, Lot 19

Price Realised

$5,500 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of broad multicoloured leaf-like brushstrokes sweeping across the canvas in large flowing bands.

Leaves, 2013

Size

269 × 144 cm (stretched)

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 2 October 2024, Lot 9057

Price Realised

$2,200 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting filled with thousands of fine looping marks in pink, yellow, green, orange, violet and white over a dark ground.

Mountain Devil Lizard, 2014

Size

138 × 211 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

unstretched, Est: $3, 000-5, 000, Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Art , Australian, Aboriginal & International, Sydney, 6 December 2021|Lot 6095

Price Realised

$3,800 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of large multicoloured leaf-shaped brushstrokes sweeping across the canvas in broad flowing currents.

Bush Medicine Leaves, 2015

Size

207.5 × 109.5 × 3 cm

Medium

Acrylic on linen (ready to hang)

Auction

Lawsons, Australian Indigenous Art, Sydney, 27 October 2025, Lot 5020

Price Realised

$2,800 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting with broad multicoloured leaf-shaped brushstrokes flowing in sweeping currents across the canvas.

Bush Medicine Leaves’, c2015

Size

200 × 150 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

approx., Est: $3, 000-5, 000, Raffan Kelaher & Thomas P/L, Fine & Decorative Arts (Art lots only), Sydney, 6 December 2022, Lot 38

Price Realised

$2,700 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of multicoloured bush medicine leaves flowing in broad sweeping currents across the canvas.

Bush Medicine Leaves, 2016

Size

211 × 164 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

unstretched, Est: $3, 000-5, 000, Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, The Ron Maher Collection , Art including Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 11 October 2021|Lot 6223

Provenance

—

Price Realised

$2,000 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting with thousands of cream and pale yellow bush medicine leaves flowing in dense swirling patterns across a dark ground.

Bush Medicine Leaves, 2016

Size

100 × 86.5 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Lawsons, Indigenous Art, Sydney, 15 December 2025, Lot 5046

Price Realised

$1,300 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of large blue, yellow, green, purple and white bush medicine leaves sweeping across the canvas.

Bush Medicine Leaves, 2016

Size

83 × 71 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Evans Hastings Valuers & Auctioneers, Australian, International & Aboriginal Fine Art, Canberra, 16 June 2021, Lot 2

Provenance

Red Ochre Art; private collection, New South Wales. Accompanied by certificate of authenticity from Red Ochre Art and photograph of the artist signing the work.

Price Realised

$1,000 AUD

Gloria Petyarre painting of blue, turquoise and white medicine leaves sweeping outward in broad flowing currents across the canvas.

Medicine Leaves, c.2017

Size

202 × 150 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Davidson Auctions, Australian & International Art, Sydney, 17 August 2025, Lot 160

Provenance

Lawrence Renata, Errintja Aboriginal Art, Art Offerings, Sydney (certificate of authenticity included).

Price Realised

$3,000 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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