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Jack Britten value and auction results

Works offered at auction: 273
Sale rate: 57%
Highest sale: $70,000 AUD
Median sale price: $4,000 AUD

This is a supporting page for Jack Britten’s auction results and market values. For his biography, painting style, subjects, relationships with other East Kimberley artists and artistic importance, please see the main Jack Britten: Biography and paintings artist page.

Jack Britten paintings have a well-established secondary market, with the strongest prices generally paid for major Purnululu (Bungle Bungles) works from the late 1980s and early 1990s. His auction record is $70,000 AUD for Purnu Lulu, the Bungle Bungles, 1989, a large 160 × 200 cm natural earth pigment painting sold by Sotheby’s in 2005.

There is a pronounced difference between the ordinary market and the very best works. Only a relatively small group has reached five-figure prices, while a substantial proportion of successful sales fall between approximately $2,000 and $8,000. The upper end is dominated by larger, important works with strong provenance, particularly paintings from the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Perhaps most importantly, a 57% sale rate shows that demand is selective. Almost half the works offered at auction have failed to sell. Britten therefore has a market in which quality, period, subject, scale and provenance matter considerably more than the artist’s name alone.

Jack Britten Value 1984-1988

Jack Britten Purnululu Bungle Bungles 1984 earth pigment painting showing the striped ranges of Gija Country

Purnululu – Bungle Bungles, 1984

Size
91.5 × 182.5 cm

Medium
Earth pigments on board

Auction
Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art and a Collection of New Ireland Malagan Sculptures, Melbourne, 27 June 2000, Lot 77

Provenance
Inscribed verso: “84/Jack Britten/Bungle Bungle.”

Price Realised
$29,500 AUD

Jack Britten Untitled 1987 earth pigment painting from Warmun with red ochre forms outlined by white dots

Untitled, 1987

Size
98.5 × 94 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic and natural binder on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 453

Provenance
Painted at Warmun (Turkey Creek), Western Australia; acquired directly from the artist by Rick Chapman, manager of the Community Store and Community Development Program at Warmun in the late 1980s; Private Collection, Queensland.

Price Realised
$7,000 AUD

Jack Britten Frog Hollow Story c. 1987 earth pigment painting depicting Frog Hollow Country in the East Kimberley

Frog Hollow Story, c. 1987

Size
51 × 76 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 31 May 2005, Lot 152

Provenance
Private Collection, South Australia.

Price Realised
$3,800 AUD

Jack Britten Untitled Kangaroo Story 1987 earth pigment painting with kangaroo figure and East Kimberley imagery

Untitled (Kangaroo Story), 1987

Size
60 × 90 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and natural binder (bush gum) on composition board

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 193

Provenance
Bears signed catalogue number J.B. 21087 and “Property of Mary Macha” on the reverse.

Price Realised
$1,500 AUD

Jack Britten Turkey Creek Dreamtime 1988 earth pigment painting depicting the Gulabul snake and formation of Turkey Creek

Turkey Creek Dreamtime, 1988

Size
120 × 80 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 9 November 2005, Lot 35

Provenance
Waringarri Arts, Western Australia (Cat. No. AP1602); Private Collection, Queensland. Sold with documentation from Waringarri Arts.

Price Realised
$15,500 AUD

Jack Britten Untitled 1988 earth pigment painting with ochre landscape forms and white dotted outlines<br />

Untitled, 1988

Size
78.5 × 99.2 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Christie’s, Modern Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 12 October 2004, Lot 87

Provenance
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Western Australia; Mary Macha, Western Australia; Private Collection, Sydney. Sold with a Waringarri Aboriginal Arts certificate of authenticity signed by Mary Macha.

Price Realised
$10,000 AUD

Jack Britten Values 1989-1990

Jack Britten Bungle Bungles c. 1989 earth pigment painting of Purnululu Country with dotted sandstone formations

Bungle Bungles, c. 1989

Size
56 × 76 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and natural binders on canvas board

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 15 November 2005, Lot 177

Provenance
Signed “Jack” and bearing the artist’s name, title and information relating to the story depicted on the reverse.

Price Realised
$2,400 AUD

Jack Britten Purnu Lulu The Bungle Bungles 1989 earth pigment painting of the striped sandstone ranges of Purnululu

Purnu Lulu, the Bungle Bungles, 1989

Size
160 × 200 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and natural binders on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 25 July 2005, Lot 44

Provenance
Painted in the East Kimberley region for Waringarri Aboriginal Arts; Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised
$70,000 AUD

Jack Britten Purnululu Country 1989 earth pigment painting depicting the striped domes of the Bungle Bungles

Purnululu Country, 1989

Size
74 × 127.5 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and natural binders on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 25 July 2005, Lot 193

Provenance
Painted in the Warmun region, Western Australia; acquired directly from the artist by Ken Jackson; Private Collection, Queensland.

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

Jack Britten The Bungle Bungles 1990 earth pigment painting depicting the striped domes and ranges of Purnululu Country

The Bungle Bungles, 1990

Size
100 × 118.5 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and natural binder (bush gum) on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 31

Provenance
Painted in the Warmun region, Western Australia; Private Collection, Darwin.

Price Realised
$41,000 AUD

Jack Britten Jarlinji Plains Kangaroo 1990 earth pigment painting of Garndi Country and the ancestral kangaroo journey

Jarlinji, Plains Kangaroo, 1990

Size
80 × 160 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 130

Provenance
Painted in 1990 for Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra; Lindsay Street Gallery, Darwin; Private Collection, New South Wales.

Price Realised
$21,000 AUD

Jack Britten Untitled Ord River Country 1990 earth pigment painting depicting the Ord River and surrounding East Kimberley ranges

Untitled (Ord River Country), 1990

Size
100 × 140 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and bush gum on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1998, Lot 17

Provenance
Bears Waringarri Aboriginal Arts catalogue numbers S-2039 and AP-3190 together with the artist’s name on the reverse.

Price Realised


$15,000 AUD

 

Jack Britten Garraginy Country 1990 earth pigment painting of East Kimberley hills and ranges

Garraginy Country, 1990

Size
90 × 120 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, 8 March 2015, Lot 34

Provenance
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra; Kimberley Art, Melbourne; Colin and Elizabeth Laverty Collection, Sydney, purchased June 1996. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Jack Britten Purnululu Bungle Bungles c. 1990 earth pigment painting of the striped sandstone domes of Purnululu

Purnululu – Bungle Bungles, c. 1990

Size
60 × 80 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 15 November 2005, Lot 93

Provenance
Bears the artist’s name, size and Waringarri Artists catalogue numbers AP3297 and S2721.

Price Realised
$8,000 AUD

Jack Britten Joowooliny Country 1990 earth pigment painting with layered striped hills of East Kimberley Country

Joowooliny Country, 1990

Size
50 × 70 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and binder on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art & Oceanic Art, Sydney, 18 October 2011, Lot 92

Provenance
Painted at Kununurra, Western Australia; Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra (stock AP3270); Private Collection, New South Wales. Sold with a Waringarri Arts certificate.

Price Realised
$7,000 AUD

Jack Britten Purnululu Bungle Bungle c. 1990 earth pigment painting of the striped sandstone domes of Purnululu Country

Purnululu Bungle Bungle, c. 1990

Size
60 × 80 cm

Medium
Earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1999, Lot 1

Provenance
Inscribed verso “Jack Britten / Waringarri – Aboriginal – Arts.”

Price Realised
$5,200 AUD

Jack Britten Ground Sugar Bag Dreaming 1990 earth pigment painting from the East Kimberley

Ground Sugar Bag Dreaming, 1990

Size
69 × 101 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Leonard Joel, Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 24 February 2021, Lot 64

Provenance
Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, 1991; Private Collection, Sydney; Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$3,400 AUD

Jack Britten Gawarriny and Jilliny Country 1990 earth pigment painting of layered East Kimberley hills

Gawarriny and Jilliny Country, 1990

Size
160 × 80 cm

Medium
Earth pigments and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design, Sydney, 15 April 2014, Lot 293

Provenance
Not recorded in the supplied auction data.

Price Realised
$3,000 AUD

Jack Britten Values 1991-1992

Jack Britten Frog Hollow c. 1991 earth pigment painting depicting Frog Hollow Country near Warmun in the East Kimberley

Frog Hollow, c. 1991

Size
81 × 128 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and natural binder (bush gum) on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 131

Provenance
Painted in the Warmun (Turkey Creek) region, Western Australia; acquired directly from the artist by a worker at the Warmun Community; Private Collection, Perth.

Price Realised
$25,000 AUD

Jack Britten Gayirriwaroon Country and Ord River 1991 earth pigment painting of East Kimberley Country

Gayirriwaroon Country and Ord River, 1991

Size
100 × 140 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and bush gum on canvas

Auction
Leonard Joel, The Kelton Collection – Indigenous Art at Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 11 April 2022, Lot 158

Provenance
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Kelton Collection, United States of America, acquired 1992.

Price Realised
$8,500 AUD

Jack Britten Ground Sugar Bag Dreaming Plain Kangaroo Country 1991 earth pigment painting from the East Kimberley

Ground Sugar Bag Dreaming / Plain Kangaroo Country, 1991

Size
69 × 102 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 17

Provenance
Commissioned directly from the artist by Fantome Bay and administered by the sisters at the convent at Warmun; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$8,000 AUD

Jack Britten Suicide at the Bungle Bungles Husband and Wife 1991 earth pigment painting with two figures above Purnululu

Suicide at the Bungle Bungles (Husband and Wife), 1991

Size
64 × 80 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Joel Fine Art, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 5 June 2007, Lot 196

Provenance
Bears the artist’s name and title on the reverse.

Price Realised
$3,000 AUD

Jack Britten Garnken 1991 earth pigment painting with bold black forms outlined in white dots

Garnken, 1991

Size
40.3 × 50.3 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic binders on canvas

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, The Peter Elliott Collection, Day 2, Sydney, 31 August 2015, Lot 302

Provenance
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Western Australia (Cat. No. AP3554). Sold with a Waringarri Aboriginal Arts certificate.

Price Realised
$1,000 AUD

Jack Britten Eagle 1991–1992 earth pigment painting depicting a large ancestral eagle at Warmun

Eagle, 1991/1992

Size
40.4 × 51 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and natural binder (bush gum) on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 217

Provenance
Painted at Warmun (Turkey Creek), Western Australia; Private Collection, Perth.

Price Realised
$3,400 AUD

Jack Britten Purnululu Bungle Bungles 1992 earth pigment painting of densely layered striped sandstone domes

Purnululu (Bungle Bungles), 1992

Size
120 × 160 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 9 November 2005, Lot 145

Provenance
Commissioned by Vivien Anderson Gallery and painted at Warmun (Turkey Creek), Western Australia, in 1992; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$42,000 AUD

Jack Britten Eagle and Bungle Bungles 1992 earth pigment painting of an eagle flying over Purnululu Country

Eagle and Bungle Bungles, 1992

Size
78.5 × 118 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and natural binder (bush gum) on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 30

Provenance
Painted at Warmun (Turkey Creek), Western Australia; Private Collection, Perth.

Price Realised
$24,000 AUD

Jack Britten Magoombarra Country on the Little Panton River c. 1992 earth pigment painting of East Kimberley Country

Magoombarra Country on the Little Panton River, c. 1992

Size
120 × 160 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, 8 March 2015, Lot 35

Provenance
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra; Colin and Elizabeth Laverty Collection, Sydney, purchased July 1995.

Price Realised

$5,000 AUD

Jack Britten Values 1993-1995

Jack Britten Purnululu The Bungle Bungles 1993 earth pigment painting of the striped sandstone ranges of Purnululu Country

Purnululu (The Bungle Bungles), 1993

Size
120 × 160 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 18 March 2020, Lot 62

Provenance
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra, Western Australia; Private Collection, Switzerland; Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 24 July 2007, Lot 35; Estate of Dr Paul Sutherland, Sydney.

Price Realised
$36,000 AUD

Jack Britten Purnululu 1993 earth pigment painting depicting the densely clustered striped sandstone domes of the Bungle Bungles

Purnululu, 1993

Size
89.5 × 129.5 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 8 June 2021, Lot 72

Provenance
Commissioned directly from the artist by the coordinator of the Halls Creek Art Centre in 1993; Private Collection, South Australia.

Price Realised
$5,500 AUD

Jack Britten Blue Tongue Lizard Tracks c. 1993 natural pigment painting with rhythmic undulating dotted bands

Untitled (Blue Tongue Lizard Tracks), c. 1993

Size
60 × 80 cm

Medium
Natural pigments on linen

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, The Alan Boxer Collection of Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 17 March 2015, Lot 98

Provenance
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Western Australia; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; Alan Boxer Collection, Canberra. Sold with a Waringarri Aboriginal Arts certificate.

Price Realised
$1,800 AUD

Jack Britten Karakiny Bungle Bungles 1994 natural pigment painting depicting Nangala women’s Country and the Ord River

Karakiny (Bungle Bungles), 1994

Size
91 × 121 cm

Medium
Natural pigments on canvas

Auction
Phillips Auctioneers, 20th Century Art & Design, Sydney, 10 May 1998, Lot 11

Provenance
Catalogue No. KA.J.B8/94. Accompanied by an original certificate from Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$3,600 AUD

Jack Britten Purnululu Bungle Bungles c. 1995 earth pigment painting of densely packed striped sandstone domes

Purnululu (Bungle Bungles), c. 1995

Size
101 × 137 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 254

Provenance
Bears signed Ochre Gallery stamp on the reverse.

Price Realised
$4,000 AUD

Jack Britten Values 1996

Koondooka (Two Picaninnys), 1996 by Jack Britten, natural earth pigments on canvas

Koondooka (Two Picaninnys), 1996

Size
119.5 × 150 cm; 121.5 × 152 cm framed

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Art Leven, The Rod Menzies Estate | Indigenous and Oceanic Art Collection | Part I, Sydney, 8 November 2023, Lot 37

Provenance
Warmun Traditional Artists, Western Australia (Cat. No. JB0016); Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Victoria (Cat. No. 230121); Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 31 May 2005, Lot 43; Menzies Estate Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$8,000 AUD

Balminji River, 1996 by Jack Britten, natural earth pigments on linen

Balminji River, 1996

Size
91 × 120 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and gum on linen

Auction
Leonard Joel, Aboriginal Art & Artifacts, Melbourne, 10 October 2013, Lot 171

Provenance
Inscribed verso with the artist’s name, title and descriptive story, Narrungunny Art Traders stamp and catalogue number NAT-0264.

Price Realised
$4,000 AUD

Gwali-Waali, 1996 by Jack Britten, natural earth pigments on canvas

Gwali – Waali, 1996

Size
90 × 120 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 252

Provenance
Signed and dated 1 July 1996 and bearing catalogue number 0020 on the reverse.

Price Realised
$3,400 AUD

Kanamunja, 1996 by Jack Britten, natural earth pigments on canvas

Kanamunja, 1996

Size
60 × 90 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Bonhams, The Laverty Collection: Contemporary Australian Art, Sydney, 24 March 2013, Lot 156

Provenance
Purchased from Warmun Artists Co-op, Turkey Creek, Western Australia, in November 1996; Laverty Collection, Sydney. Sold with accompanying Warmun Artists Co-op documentation.

Price Realised
$3,000 AUD

Daiwul (Barramundi), 1996 by Jack Britten, ochre on canvas

Daiwul (Barramundi), 1996

Size
91.5 × 122 cm

Medium
Ochre on canvas

Auction
Leonard Joel, The Alan Boxer Collection of Aboriginal Art, Books & Music, Melbourne, 19 May 2016, Lot 120

Provenance
Inscribed verso with catalogue number JB06649.

Price Realised
$2,000 AUD

Country Series, 1996–1998 by Jack Britten, four ochre paintings on canvas

Country Series, 1996

Size
Each 172 × 69 cm; 172 × 280 cm overall

Medium
Ochre on canvas

Auction
Art Leven, First Nations Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 17 June 2025, Lot 54

Provenance
Narrangunny Art Traders; comprising Wanaragowuny – Gorge Country, 1996 (N-1102-JB); Oro River Country – Walaruny, 1998 (N-1255-JB); Kalruny – Water Spirit, 1998 (N-1106-JB); and Murralunginy – Hann Springs, 1998 (N-1105-JB); John Bursill Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$12,000 AUD

Jack Britten Values 1997

Homelands (Bungle Bungles), 1997 by Jack Britten, natural earth pigments on linen triptych

Homelands (Bungle Bungles), 1997

Size
160 × 100 cm, triptych

Medium
Natural earth pigments on linen

Auction
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 29 July 2024, Lot 9062

Provenance
Warmun Community Council, Western Australia (JB1115); Kimberley Art, Melbourne (KA00174); Private Collection; Lawson-Menzies.

Price Realised
$13,000 AUD

Numbuddy Jilinji, 1997 by Jack Britten, natural earth pigments on Belgian linen

Numbuddy Jilinji, 1997

Size
100 × 100 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 11 October 2022, Lot 22

Provenance
Narangunny Traders, Western Australia (Cat. No. JB0087); Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art Auction, Sydney, November 2004, Lot 8; Private Collection, New South Wales.

Price Realised
$10,000 AUD

Karagi Bungle Bungles, 1997 by Jack Britten, natural earth pigments on Belgian linen

Karagi Bungle Bungles, 1997

Size
90 × 118 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigment on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 20 June 2023, Lot 84

Provenance
Narangunny Traders, Western Australia (Cat. No. JB1297); Private Collection, Victoria. Accompanied by a photograph of the artist holding the artwork.

Price Realised
$2,800 AUD

Tamoormoor Gorge, 1997 by Jack Britten, natural earth pigments on canvas

Tamoormoor Gorge, 1997

Size
60 × 80 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and binder on canvas

Auction
Joel Fine Art, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 5 June 2007, Lot 23

Provenance
Painted for Warmun Traditional Arts, Turkey Creek; Kimberley Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne. Sold with a certificate from Warmun Traditional Arts and a copy of the exhibition catalogue from which the work was purchased.

Price Realised
$2,600 AUD

Redback Country, 1997 by Jack Britten, with large concentric black rings edged in white dots across a red ochre ground.

Redback Country, 1997

Size
90 × 120 cm

Medium
Natural pigments on polyester

Auction
Phillips Auctioneers, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 24 July 2000, Lot 4

Provenance
Narrangunny Art Traders (Cat. No. NAT-0265); Private Collection.

Price Realised
$2,500 AUD

Yarralullybine, 1997 by Jack Britten, with large oval and leaf-shaped forms surrounded by sweeping black, yellow and brown bands edged with white dots.

Yarralullybine, 1997

Size
61 × 90.5 cm

Medium
Ochre on linen

Auction
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Indigenous Art, Sydney, 15 July 2026, Lot 9114

Provenance
Narrangunny Art (Cat. No. N-0151-JB).

Price Realised
$1,500 AUD

Jack Britten Values 1998

ack Britten’s 1998 triptych with three tall ochre panels showing sweeping dotted bands, concentric circles, a central dark rock form and layered Kimberley ranges.

Triptych: (A) Tjatjao, (B) Nyingirowing, (C) Jalmjnji (All Country), 1998

Size
Each panel 160 × 60 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigment on canvas

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 8 April 2008, Lot 118

Provenance
Warmun Traditional Artists; Private Collection, Melbourne. Cat. No. N0729JB.

Price Realised
$43,000 AUD

Narragorriny Gorge, 1998 by Jack Britten, with a large dark gorge form above layered yellow and brown ranges filled with curving rows of white dots.

Narragorriny Gorge, 1998

Size
120 × 160 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 7 June 2011, Lot 140

Provenance
Warmun Artists (Narrunguny Art Traders), Western Australia (stock N-0117-JB); Private Collection, Melbourne; Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$10,000 AUD

Nurragowiny, 1998 by Jack Britten, with rows of rounded striped hills below sweeping dotted curves and tall dark rock forms on a red-brown ground.

Nurragowiny, 1998

Size
90 × 120 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Joel Fine Art, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 5 June 2007, Lot 80

Provenance
Bears the artist’s name, date and size on the reverse.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Dabanbine River, 1998 by Jack Britten, with bold black and yellow ochre landforms above undulating red-brown bands outlined with rows of white dots.

Dabanbine River, 1998

Size
91 × 120.5 cm

Medium
Acrylic and natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 27 October 2024, Lot 150

Provenance
Private Collection, Melbourne. Signed, dated and titled verso with catalogue number NAT0489.

Price Realised
$3,800 AUD

Bungle Bungles, c. 1989 by Jack Britten, with four tall dotted rock forms rising above smaller striped hills within a densely dotted brown ochre landscape.

Bungle Bungles, c. 1989

Size
56 × 76 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and natural binders on canvas board

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 15 November 2005, Lot 177

Provenance
Signed “Jack” and bearing the artist’s name, title and information relating to the story depicted on the reverse.

Price Realised
$2,400 AUD

Coongulanariny (Bush Matches), 1998 by Jack Britten, with concentric circular forms above sweeping horizontal bands and rows of rounded hills in yellow, brown, black and white ochres.

Coongulanariny (Bush Matches), 1998

Size
60 × 90.5 cm

Medium
Ochre on linen

Auction
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 9 March 2026, Lot 9014

Provenance
Narrangunny Art certificate of authenticity (Cat. No. N-0311-JB).

Price Realised
$1,300 AUD

Jack Britten Values 1999

Koomoolariny – Yungoon Country, 1999 by Jack Britten, with a black ancestral figure walking among striped hills above layered ranges, concentric circles and rows of rounded forms.

Koomoolariny – Yungoon Country, 1999

Size
120 × 90 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 30 May 2006, Lot 50

Provenance
Ochre Gallery; Private Collection, Melbourne. Sold with original gallery documentation.

Price Realised
$18,000 AUD

Biganinny Country (Mt Clarke), 1999 by Jack Britten, with rows of striped rounded hills separated by broad black and yellow ochre bands across the landscape.

Biganinny Country (Mt Clarke), 1999

Size
90 × 120 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 187

Provenance
Narrangunny Art (Cat. No. N-1026); Private Collection, Victoria. Sold with original source documentation.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Munga Munganoo (Ord River), 1999 by Jack Britten, with rows of black rounded hill forms outlined in white dots between broad red, grey, black and green bands.

Munga Munganoo (Ord River), 1999

Size
91 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Shapiro Auctioneers, Modern + Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 10 December 2003, Lot 143

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist; accompanied by an image of the artist with the painting; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$5,600 AUD

Joalingi (Hann Springs), 1999 by Jack Britten, with large rounded red and yellow ochre hills crossed by black bands and rows of white dots.

Joalingi (Hann Springs), 1999

Size
95 × 90 cm

Medium
Natural ochres on canvas

Auction
Evans Hastings Valuers & Auctioneers, Australian & International Fine Art, Canberra, 25 November 2020, Lot 54

Provenance
Chapman Gallery, Canberra. Artwork No. N-0730-JB. Accompanied by the original Chapman Gallery receipt and paperwork.

Price Realised
$2,500 AUD

Jalbooroo (Ord River), 1999 by Jack Britten, with concentric red and black ochre circles, a central elongated oval form and a black dotted range across the top.

Jalbooroo (Ord River), 1999

Size
35 × 45.5 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and acrylic on canvas

Auction
Gibson’s, Winter Art Online, Melbourne, 19 August 2026, Lot 81

Provenance
Narrangunny Art Traders, Western Australia; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$950 AUD

Jack Britten Values 2000

The Kawariny (Bungle Bungles), 2000 by Jack Britten, with rows of rounded black-and-white striped domes rising through bands of yellow, green, pink and red ochre.

The Kawariny (Bungle Bungles), 2000

Size
90 × 121 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 20 October 2020, Lot 63

Provenance
Narrangunny Art Traders, Western Australia (Cat. No. N1328JB); Kimberley Art, Victoria; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$3,400 AUD

Untitled, 2000 by Jack Britten, with layered black ranges and blue-grey bands above five striped rounded hills against a vivid yellow ochre ground.

Untitled, 2000

Size
120 × 120 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Davidson Auctions, Christmas Emporium, Sydney, 9 December 2018, Lot 299M

Provenance
Signed “Jack” verso; Cat. No. JB1001 (00); also inscribed O.A.A.A.

Price Realised
$1,500 AUD

Bungle Bungles, 2001 by Jack Britten, with rows of red and black striped domes separated by sweeping bands of yellow, blue-grey and red ochre.

Bungle Bungles, 2001

Size
91 × 122 cm

Medium
Ochre on canvas

Auction
Bonhams & Goodman, Affordable International, Australian and Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 8 May 2007, Lot 556

Provenance
Adam Knight Tjupurrula Australian Fine Art, Melbourne. Accompanied by an Adam Knight Tjupurrula Australian Fine Art certificate of authenticity and two photographs of the artist with the painting.

Price Realised
$5,400 AUD

My Father’s Country, 2001 by Jack Britten, with a row of small striped hills above large black, red and grey landforms and ochre hills outlined in white dots.

My Father’s Country, 2001

Size
110 × 140 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Quarterly Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 19 June 2014, Lot 179

Provenance
Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Flinders Lane Gallery and a suite of working photographs.

Price Realised
$3,800 AUD

 

Purnululu, 2001 by Jack Britten, with rows of dark striped domes beneath circular dotted forms and layered black, grey and yellow ochre ranges

Purnululu, 2001

Size
80 × 60 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 4 June 2006, Lot 444

Provenance
Warmun Arts Centre (Cat. No. WAC 900/01); Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised
$2,500 AUD

Zebra Rock, 2002 by Jack Britten, with a large black field beside tightly spaced horizontal red, grey and white dotted bands.

Zebra Rock, 2002

Size
45.5 × 120 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, The Ainsworth Collection – Contemporary & Aboriginal Art; Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2014, Lot 51

Provenance
Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek, acquired 2002; K.D.H. Ainsworth Collection, Queensland.

Price Realised
$5,500 AUD

Ngarrgoorliny Munbin, Purnululu, 2002 by Jack Britten, with four dark striped domes below a large yellow central form framed by black, pink and red ochre shapes.

Ngarrgoorliny Munbin, Purnululu, 2002

Size
80 × 60 cm

Medium
Natural ochres on canvas

Auction
Davidson Auctions, Australian & International Art, Sydney, 21 August 2022, Lot 271

Provenance
Warmun Art Centre (Cat. No. 368/02).

Price Realised
$2,000 AUD

Toolookininji, Looking Out, 2004 by Jack Britten, with bold concentric circles, arched rock forms and flowing black, red and yellow ochre bands covered in white dots.

Toolookininji, Looking Out, 2004

Size
54 × 142 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments on the back of a fly screen door

Auction
Art Leven, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Sydney, 29 May 2018, Lot 94

Provenance
Narrangunny Art Traders, Western Australia (Cat. No. NAT0438); Kimberley Art, Victoria; Private Collection, Western Australia.

Price Realised
$3,800 AUD

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