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Maggie Watson Napangardi Value and Auction Results

Works Offered at Auction: 107
Sale Rate: 66%
Highest Sale: $290,000 AUD
Median Sale Price: $15,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi paintings can range from several thousand dollars for smaller works to well over $100,000 for major paintings, with her strongest large-scale works from the mid-to-late 1990s achieving exceptional prices. Her auction market is particularly strong for substantial paintings associated with Mina Mina, Digging Stick Dreaming, Women’s Dreaming and related Warlpiri women’s ceremonial narratives.

The standout period is 1995–1997. A large Mina Mina Dreaming from 1995 realised $290,000 AUD, while the monumental Digging Stick Dreaming (1995), measuring 201 × 351 cm, realised $260,000 AUD. Another major Digging Stick Dreaming from 1997 sold for $155,000 AUD at Christie’s.

These exceptional results should not be taken as the value of a typical Maggie Watson painting. Smaller works commonly sell in the $5,000–$20,000 range, while larger, visually powerful works with strong provenance can command substantially more. Size, date, subject, composition, provenance, documentation and overall quality all have a significant effect on value.

Below are documented auction results for Maggie Watson Napangardi, arranged chronologically from 1987 to 1999, allowing direct comparison of her early paintings with the increasingly ambitious works of the 1990s.

For more information about Maggie Watson Napangardi’s biography, painting style and the stories depicted in her work, see the main Maggie Watson Napangardi artist profile

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Maggie Watson Napangardi value 1987-1990

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with long pink and white digging-stick forms crossing dense fields of yellow, green, black, white and red dots, interspersed with circular motifs representing important sites.

Women’s Digging Stick Dreaming, 1987

Size
75 × 60 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 23 May 2007, Lot 2

Provenance
Collected from the artist in the field while filming in Yuendumu; Private Collection, New South Wales. Sold with a photograph of the artist with the painting.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with long interlocking red and white pathways running across dense fields of ochre, grey, black and white dots, surrounded by repeated concentric circular motifs.

Yala Jukurrpa, 1989

Size
136 × 87 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Leonard Joel, Fine & Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 22 October 2024, Lot 118

Provenance
Inscribed verso with the artist’s name, title and Warlukurlangu Artists Cat. No. 73/89.

Price Realised
$14,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with three tall red winding forms outlined in white, yellow and blue, set against dense fields of yellow, brown, red, pink and black dotting.

Bush Plum Dreaming, 1989

Size
62 × 62 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 291

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists (Cat. No. 132/89); Austral Gallery, USA; Private Collection, USA. Sold with original art centre documentation.

Price Realised
$5,500 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with concentric circles, long looping vine-like forms and dense fields of blue, white, ochre and brown dots arranged across a square canvas.

Ngalyipi Jukurrpa (Snake Vine Dreaming), 1990

Size
91 × 91 cm

Medium
Acrylic on Belgian linen

Auction
Artcurial, Art Aborigine Australien Collection Peter Los, Paris, 7 July 2008, Lot 60

Provenance
Accompanied by Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu certificate No. 197/90.

Price Realised
$20,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with four tall black digging-stick forms outlined in white, set against densely dotted fields of red, orange, pink, grey, brown and ochre.

Digging Sticks, 1990

Size
76 × 91.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 10 May 2017, Lot 78

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu; Friends of the Earth Manyuku Gallery, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1990.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with concentric circular motifs connected by broad winding red and white lines across densely dotted fields of pink, blue, ochre, brown, black and white.

Bush Potato Dreaming, 1990

Size
91 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, Important Australian Art, Sydney, 29 November 2022, Lot 76

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, Northern Territory (Cat. No. 164/90); Private Collection; Sims Dickson Collection, New South Wales.

Price Realised
$7,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with a large rectangular ceremonial design of connected circles and parallel lines, surrounded by dense blue, white, brown and black dot patterns.

Kanakurlangu Jukurrpa, Women’s Dreaming at Janyinki, c. 1990

Size

45.5 x 60.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction

Shapiro Auctioneers Lot No. 190

Provenance

Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, Northern Territory (Cat. No. 164/90); Private Collection; Sims Dickson Collection, New South Wales.

Price Realised
$2500AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi value 1991-1994

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with long black-edged looping vine forms crossing dense fields of pink, ochre, brown and white dots, with circular motifs representing desert oaks and ceremonial poles.

Ngalyipi Jukurrpa (Snake Vine Dreaming), 1991

Size
122 × 92 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 23 May 2007, Lot 89

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists (Cat. No. 157/91); Private Collection, New South Wales. Sold with a copy of the art centre documentation.

Price Realised
$32,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with tall black digging-stick forms, circular waterhole motifs and dense fields of white, yellow, pink and brown dots arranged in flowing parallel bands.

Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women’s Dreaming), 1991

Size
91 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, The Alan Boxer Collection of Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 17 March 2015, Lot 15

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists, Northern Territory; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; The Alan Boxer Collection, Canberra. Sold with a Warlukurlangu Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with long undulating black, white and ochre bands surrounding concentric circles, set among densely patterned fields of red, pink, yellow, orange and grey dots.

Snake Vine Dreaming, 1992

Size
172.5 × 109 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 7 June 2011, Lot 39

Provenance
Margo Stanislawska-Birnberg, Poland; Private Collection, Melbourne. Accompanied by a certificate and photograph of the artist with the work.

Price Realised
$40,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with two large undulating forms linking concentric circles and a central group of long parallel digging-stick motifs, surrounded by dense fields of multicoloured dots.

Women’s Dreaming at Janyinki, 1992

Size
152.5 × 107 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, Important Australian Art, Sydney, 4 April 2023, Lot 15

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, Northern Territory (Cat. No. 107/92); Kelton Collection, USA; Private Collection, Switzerland.

Price Realised
$14,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with long white, black and red linear forms connecting numerous concentric circles across dense fields of red, yellow, purple, blue and ochre dots.

Jinti-Parnta Jukurrpa (Native Turtle Dreaming), 1992

Size
152 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 June 1996, Lot 130

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists, Catalogue No. 12/92. Sold with an accompanying Warlukurlangu Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$7,500 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with red circular motifs surrounded by flowing rows of white, yellow, ochre and orange dots across a square canvas.

Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women Dreaming) 1993

Size

54 x 47 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Aboriginal Works of Art, Sydney, 27/11/2018, Lot No. 26

Provenance

Price Realised
$2,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with broad undulating bands of fine multicoloured dots linking circular sites across a rectangular composition, representing ancestral women's travels through Country.

Women’s Story, 1994

Size
134 × 86 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 9 November 2005, Lot 43

Provenance
Kimberley Art Gallery, Melbourne (Catalogue No. KA0034); Private Collection, Melbourne. Sold with original documentation from Kimberley Art Gallery.

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with three bold black-and-white concentric circles linked across a dark central band, surrounded by densely dotted winding forms in red, blue, grey, ochre and white.

Janganpa Tjukurrpa, 1994

Size
132 × 98 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 164

Provenance
Inscribed verso with the artist’s name, title Janganpa Possum Dreaming, and site, Marla Bore, Tanami, Northern Territory.

Price Realised
$6,500 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi value 1995

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with four long black digging-stick forms connecting large concentric circles, set against flowing bands of green, blue, orange, pink, yellow and white lines.

Mushroom Dreaming, 1995

Size
140 × 200.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, The Ainsworth Collection – Contemporary & Aboriginal Art; Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2014, Lot 86

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu; Tineriba Gallery, Hahndorf; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$60,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with four large undulating ochre forms outlined in black and white, long digging-stick motifs above, and flowing fields of fine green, brown, cream and blue lines.

Mina Mina Dreaming, 1995

Size
202 × 148 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Contemporary, Modern Australian and Important Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 19 June 2008, Lot 248

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$290,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with large concentric circles linked by elongated forms, surrounded by flowing bands of yellow, green, blue, red, brown and white dots.

Mushroom Dreaming, 1995

Size
90 × 120 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Auction
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Indigenous Art, Sydney, 15 July 2026, Lot 9078

Provenance
Vendor’s mother purchased the painting from Neil McLeod.

Price Realised
$6,500 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with two large elongated digging-stick forms, concentric circles and smaller ceremonial motifs surrounded by flowing fields of red, yellow, green, pink, orange and black lines.

Digging Stick Story, 1995

Size
197 × 201 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 4 December 2020, Lot 24

Provenance
Not specified in the source document.

Price Realised
$100,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with three large hourglass-shaped forms outlined in black and white, linked by concentric circles and surrounded by flowing fields of red, orange, yellow, blue, brown and white lines.

Untitled (Napangardi Country), 1995

Size
201 × 134.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July 2001, Lot 147

Provenance
Painted in October 1995; Tineriba Fine Arts, Hahndorf, South Australia. Sold with a certificate from Tineriba Fine Arts and a collection of photographs of the artist describing the work.

Price Realised
$65,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with tall black digging-stick forms and elongated multicoloured shapes containing circular motifs, set against flowing vertical fields of red, blue, green, orange, pink and white lines.

Digging Stick Dreaming, 1995

Size
201 × 351 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Menzies, Important Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Sydney, 10 December 2015, Lot 44

Provenance
Kimberley Art Gallery, Melbourne; Private Collection, Victoria; Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 9 November 2005, Lot 113; Private Collection, Melbourne; Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 12 September 2007, Lot 45; Property of an investment syndicate; Menzies, Melbourne, 14 September 2011, Lot 47; Company Collection, Melbourne; Menzies, Sydney, 27 June 2013, Lot 50; Company Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$260,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with numerous red, ochre, black and white concentric circles scattered across flowing fields of fine yellow, orange, pink, green and white lines.

Mina Mina, 1995

Size
187.5 × 104 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, The Serra Collection of Aboriginal Art including Property from Various Vendors, Sydney, 22 July 2020, Lot 34

Provenance
Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne (Cat. No. KAMW200/95); Private Collection, Melbourne. Accompanied by Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art documentation.

Price Realised
$28,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with large elongated ochre and orange forms linked by concentric circles, surrounded by dense bands of blue, green, red, pink, yellow and white lines.

Mina Mina Dreaming, 1995

Size
136 × 95 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Bonhams, The Laverty Collection: Contemporary Australian Art, Sydney, 24 March 2013, Lot 100

Provenance
Painted at Yuendumu, Northern Territory; purchased from Kimberley Art, Melbourne, in June 1998; The Laverty Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised
$16,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with elongated digging-stick forms connecting circular motifs across flowing fields of yellow, green, blue and white dots.

Mina Mina, 1995

Size
79.5 × 70 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 13 October 2008, Lot 21

Provenance
Commissioned by Kimberley Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Tasmania. Catalogue No. KAMW010/95. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$8,500 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi value 1996

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with elongated red and pink undulating forms connecting circular motifs, surrounded by flowing fields of blue, white, red and green lines.

Ngalyipa – Bush Mushroom Snake Vine, 1996

Size
183 × 121.5 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 172

Provenance
Native Art of Australia, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$16,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with concentric circular motifs distributed across broad flowing bands of fine yellow, white, ochre, green, purple and orange lines, with elongated forms linking several circles.

Women’s Dreaming, 1996

Size
195.5 × 134 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, 8 March 2015, Lot 87

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Melbourne; The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, purchased February 1998.

Price Realised
$80,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with long black, white and green digging-stick forms connecting large circular motifs, surrounded by fields of yellow, orange, green, blue and ochre patterning.

Digging Sticks at Mina Mina Salt Lakes, Tanami Desert, 1996

Size
175 × 95 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 31 May 2005, Lot 37

Provenance
Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$44,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with a long undulating vine-like form connecting circular motifs, outlined in black, white, pink and yellow against flowing fields of orange, green, blue and purple lines.

Ngalyipi, 1996

Size
182 × 61.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Modern & Contemporary, Melbourne, 13 June 2018, Lot 95

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, Northern Territory; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; Private Collection, Brisbane, acquired from the above in March 1997. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Warlukurlangu Artists.

Price Realised
$10,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi value 1997

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting of dense vertical bands of flowing yellow, green, blue, orange, pink and white lines divided horizontally by a single pale hair-string motif.

Hair String Dreaming, 1997

Size
184 × 92 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Menzies, Important Australian & International Art, Sydney, 28 June 2023, Lot 37

Provenance
Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne (Stock No. KA, 500-97); Kelton Foundation, California, 1998; Private Collection, Switzerland.

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with bold interlocking dark red forms enclosing green, orange, pink and white shapes, surrounded by flowing bands of yellow, pink and ochre dots.

Mina Mina, 1997

Size
113 × 97 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 441

Provenance
Inscribed verso: KA641/97 Acid Yellow.

Price Realised
$5,500 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with rows of long horizontal digging-stick forms connecting circular motifs, a large curved windbreak at right, and dense fields of yellow, ochre, pink and white dots.

Digging Sticks, 1997

Size
220 × 151 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 23 May 2007, Lot 65

Provenance
Kimberley Art (Cat. No. KART008/97); Private Collection, Victoria. Sold with photographs of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$65,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with long red interlocking forms, concentric circles and repeated oval motifs surrounded by dense bands of green, blue, pink, orange and white dots.

Mina Mina, 1997

Size
151 × 78 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 72

Provenance
Kimberley Art; Private Collection, Victoria. Sold with original gallery documentation.

Price Realised
$34,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with long red-ochre digging-stick forms, large circular waterhole motifs and flowing fields of fine blue, yellow, green, cream and ochre lines.

Digging Stick Dreaming, 1997

Size
222 × 151 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Christie’s, Modern Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 12 October 2004, Lot 61

Provenance
Commissioned by Kimberley Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$155,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with four large concentric circles connected by long dark digging-stick forms, surrounded by flowing bands of green, blue, yellow, orange, purple and white dots.

Karlangu Digging Stick Dreaming, 1997

Size
152.5 × 76 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Menzies, Important Australian & International Art, Sydney, 9 April 2025, Lot 62

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Melbourne (Stock No. KA582/97); Private Collection, Melbourne; Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, May 2004, Lot 42; Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised
$15,000 AUD

Oval wooden coolamon painted by Maggie Watson Napangardi with dark circular and U-shaped motifs across a pale yellow, pink, green and white dotted ground.

Mina Mina – Painted Coolamon, 1997

Size
85 × 32 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on wood Coolamon

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 42

Provenance
Kimberley Art; Private Collection, Victoria. Sold with two photographs of the artist with the object.

Price Realised
$12,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi value 1998-1999

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with six circular motifs and bold red-brown undulating lines set against vertical fields of pink, white, yellow, blue, green, orange and purple lines.

Mina Mina, 1998

Size
152 × 77 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 126

Provenance
High on Arts; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$12,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with four long digging-stick-like forms connecting concentric circles, bordered by twisting snake-vine motifs and vertical fields of yellow, pink, orange and ochre lines.

Hair String and Snake Vine Dreaming, 1998

Size
190 × 70 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 23 June 2020, Lot 47

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Victoria (Cat. No. KA760/98); Private Collection, New South Wales.

Price Realised
$11,500 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with numerous black-outlined concentric circles and long undulating lines crossing fields of pale green, yellow, pink, blue, orange and white.

Bush Mushroom Dreaming, 1998

Size
145 × 195 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 20 October 2008, Lot 129

Provenance
Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne; Deutscher-Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art and a Collection of New Ireland Malaggan Sculptures, Melbourne, 29 June 2000, Lot 330; Private Collection.

Price Realised
$60,000 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with tall twisting red snake-vine forms, concentric circles and repeated oval motifs over flowing fields of pink, yellow, green, ochre and white lines.

Hair String and Snake Vine Dreaming, 1998

Size
95 × 124 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Art Auction, Melbourne, 1 May 2002, Lot 171

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Melbourne, accompanied by documentation; Company Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$9,500 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with long undulating black-and-white snake-vine forms crossing an ochre and yellow ground, with circular and U-shaped motifs among dense areas of fine dotting.

Ngalyipi (Snake Vine) Jukurrpa, 1999

Size
122.5 × 76.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Shapiro Auctioneers, Modern + Contemporary, Sydney, 21 July 2004, Lot 91

Provenance
Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association Inc., Yuendumu, Northern Territory; Collection of Lilli Scott, New South Wales. Accompanied by the original certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$11,500 AUD

Maggie Watson Napangardi painting with concentric circular motifs linked by white and ochre linear forms across dense fields of green, yellow, orange, blue and red dots.

Mina Mina Dreaming, 1999

Size
40 × 65.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Art Leven, Aboriginal Works of Art, Sydney, 3 December 2019, Lot 94

Provenance

Price Realised
$5,000 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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