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Naata Nungurrayi: Artwork and painting values

Works Offered at Auction: 246
Sale Rate: 69%
Highest Sale: $198,000 AUD
Median Sale Price: $6,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi’s paintings are highly regarded by collectors for their luminous depictions of the Western Desert’s rolling sandhills. Her mature works, particularly those painted from the early 2000s onwards, are especially sought after for their exceptional harmony, refined colour and distinctive abstract style.

What Determines Value?

The value of a Naata Nungurrayi painting depends on:

  • size and quality
  • subject matter
  • provenance and Papunya Tula documentation
  • condition
  • exhibition or publication history

Large paintings depicting important sites such as Marrapinti, Ngaminya and Wirrulnga generally attract the strongest collector interest.

Looking to Sell a Naata Nungurrayi Painting?

If you own a painting by Naata Nungurrayi and would like to know its value or are considering selling it, please contact me.

Send photographs of the front and back of the painting, its dimensions, and any provenance or Papunya Tula documentation. I regularly purchase quality Aboriginal paintings outright and can provide an informed assessment based on current market demand.

If you want to read more about Naata and her painting style please read Naata Nungurrayi: Biography, Paintings & Painting Style

1998

Marrapinti (1998) by Naata Nungurrayi, acrylic on canvas depicting the sacred women's site of Marrapinti through flowing abstract forms and delicate dotting.

Marrapinti (1998)

Size
61 × 55 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Auction
Elder Fine Art, Important Australian & International Paintings, Adelaide, 6 December 2020, Lot 120

Provenance
Certificate of authenticity (Cat. No. NN981220).

Price Realised
$2,400 AUD

Untitled (1998) by Naata Nungurrayi, synthetic polymer paint on linen depicting the ceremonial landscape of Pintupi Country through flowing abstract forms and delicate dotting.

Untitled (1998)

Size
46 × 38 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Mossgreen, The Alan Boxer Collection of Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 17 March 2015, Lot 161

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. The Alan Boxer Collection, Canberra.

Price Realised
$2,000 AUD

1999

Untitled (1999) by Naata Nungurrayi, synthetic polymer paint on linen featuring flowing abstract forms inspired by the ceremonial landscapes of Pintupi Country.

Untitled (1999)

Size
122 × 60.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Christie’s, Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 August 2005, Lot 9

Provenance
Painted in 1999 for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs. A. Space on Cleveland, Sydney. Private Collection, Sydney. Accompanied by Papunya Tula Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$5,000 AUD

Women at Marrapinti Rockhole (1999) by Naata Nungurrayi, depicting the sacred women's site of Marrapinti through abstract rockholes, sandhills and ceremonial pathways.

Women at Marrapinti Rockhole (1999)

Size
91 × 61 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art Auction, Sydney, 23 November 2004, Lot 154

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in 1999 for Papunya Tula Artists (Cat. No. NN9904129). Sold with Papunya Tula Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$2,800 AUD

Untitled (1999) by Naata Nungurrayi, synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen depicting the ceremonial landscape of Pintupi Country through flowing abstract forms and finely applied dotting.

Untitled (1999)

Size
61 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Mossgreen, The Ian & Sue Bernadt Collection, Sydney, 30 August 2010, Lot 5

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Indigenart, Perth. Accompanied by Papunya Tula Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$2,500 AUD

Tjikunga (1999) by Naata Nungurrayi, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, created during the early years of her career with Papunya Tula Artists.

Tjikunga (1999)

Size
91.3 × 45.4 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Mossgreen, The Peter Elliott Collection, Sydney, 31 August 2015, Lot 236

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Utopia Art, Sydney. Exhibited: New Paintings from Kintore Women, Utopia Art, Sydney, 1999; Up Close and Personal, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2011.

Price Realised
$2,600 AUD

2000

Untitled (2000) by Naata Nungurrayi, acrylic on linen featuring flowing vertical bands, concentric motifs and finely layered dotting in warm ochre, yellow, cream and white.

Untitled (2000)

Size
122 × 91 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, A Corporate Art Collection, Sydney, 1 August 2022, Lot 4043

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Utopia Art Sydney.

Price Realised
$15,000 AUD

Untitled (2000) by Naata Nungurrayi, synthetic polymer paint on linen depicting rolling Pintupi sandhills through rhythmic concentric bands and delicate white dotting.

Untitled (2000)

Size
122.4 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Mossgreen, Australian, Indigenous & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 21 July 2015, Lot 134

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney. Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised
$12,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2000), depicting the Marrapinti rockhole, surrounding sandhills and ceremonial sites in white, ochre, black and cream on a warm desert-coloured ground.

Untitled (2000)

Size
122 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Leonard Joel, Fine Art, Melbourne, 22 November 2022, Lot 77

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists.

Price Realised
$10,000 AUD

Marrapinti (2000) by Naata Nungurrayi, synthetic polymer paint on linen depicting the sacred women's site through flowing sandhill motifs, rockholes and finely layered dotting.

Marrapinti (2000)

Size
122 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2010, Lot 277

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. Private Collection, USA.

Price Realised
$8,500 AUD

Untitled (Designs Associated with the Rockhole Site of Karrilwarra) (2000) by Naata Nungurrayi, depicting the Karrilwarra rockholes and surrounding sandhills through flowing abstract forms and geometric patterns.

Untitled (Designs Associated with the Rockhole Site of Karrilwarra) (2000)

Size
152 × 121.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, The Thomas Vroom Collection, Sydney, 6 September 2015, Lot 197

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Accompanied by Papunya Tula documentation.

Price Realised
$7,000 AUD

Untitled (Designs Associated with the Rockhole Site of Marrapinti) (2000) by Naata Nungurrayi, synthetic polymer paint on linen depicting rolling sandhills through rhythmic bands of dotting in ochre, cream, black and white.

Untitled (Designs Associated with the Rockhole Site of Marrapinti) (2000)

Size
122 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, Important Australian and Aboriginal Art including the Collections of Amina and Franco Belgiorno-Nettis and Thomas Vroom, Sydney, 7 June 2016, Lot 151

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs. The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands. Accompanied by Papunya Tula Artists documentation.

Price Realised
$5,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Ngaminya (2000), depicting sweeping concentric sandhill formations in white, black, ochre and rust surrounding a central ceremonial feature associated with the Ngaminya site.

Ngaminya (2000)

Size
61 × 56 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, The Thomas Vroom Collection, Sydney, 6 September 2015, Lot 196

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Accompanied by Papunya Tula Artists documentation.

Price Realised
$1,300 AUD

2001

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2002), featuring concentric square bands of black and white dotting surrounding a central cluster of circular motifs in a striking minimalist Western Desert composition.

Untitled (2001)

Size
91 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Shapiro Auctioneers, Indigenous Art, Sydney, 15 July 2024, Lot 7

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Women at Marrapinti (2001), featuring an intricate network of cream and ochre dotted lines on a black ground representing women's ceremonial paths associated with the Marrapinti site.

Women at Marrapinti (2001)

Size
93.5 × 154 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Colonial to Contemporary, Sydney, 24 June 2009, Lot 199

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Melbourne. Private Collection, Melbourne. Accompanied by photographs of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$7,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting The Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Marrapinti (2001), depicting sweeping aerial sandhill formations in white, black and muted ochre against a softly dotted cream and pink desert landscape.

The Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Marrapinti (2001)

Size
152.5 × 183 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, 8 March 2015, Lot 109

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi; Private Collection USA; The Colin & Elizabeth Laverty Collection.

Price Realised
$180,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Ngaminya) (2001), featuring sweeping sandhill motifs in black, white and ochre surrounding ceremonial forms on a vibrant pink and red background.

Untitled (Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Ngaminya) (2001)

Size
91 × 61 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Bonhams, The Laverty Collection: Contemporary Australian Art, Sydney, 24 March 2013, Lot 34

Provenance
Painted at Kintore for Papunya Tula Artists. The Colin & Elizabeth Laverty Collection. Accompanied by a Papunya Tula Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (Marrapinti) (2001), featuring an intricate network of ochre pathways and black dotted fields representing ceremonial designs associated with the Marrapinti site in Pintupi Country.

Untitled (Marrapinti) (2001)

Size
61.5 × 56 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Art Leven, First Nations Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 17 June 2025, Lot 1

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Private Collection, New South Wales. Previously Sotheby’s (2005) and Bonhams (2012).

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2001), featuring soft pink, salmon, ochre and white concentric forms representing ceremonial sites associated with Marrapinti in Pintupi Country.

Marrapinti (2001)

Size
61 × 91 cm

Medium
Acrylic on Belgian linen

Auction
Lawsons, Australian & Indigenous Art, Sydney, 23 March 2026, Lot 5012

Provenance
Yanda Aboriginal Art (Cat. No. NA200180). Accompanied by Yanda Aboriginal Art certificate of authenticity and holding photographs.

Price Realised
$1,200 AUD

2002

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2002), featuring an intricate network of cream dotted ceremonial pathways across a warm ochre ground representing the Marrapinti site in Pintupi Country.

Marrapinti (2002)

Size
183 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 25 May 2022, Lot 69

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists; Private Collection Victoria.

Price Realised
$80,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2002), featuring a dense network of cream dotted pathways and striped ceremonial forms on a black background in a complex geometric Western Desert composition.

Untitled (2002)

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Menzies, Important Australian & International Art, Sydney, 9 April 2025, Lot 58

Provenance
Yanda Aboriginal Art.

Price Realised
$36,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2002), depicting concentric sandhill motifs surrounding hundreds of softly coloured circular forms on a warm ochre ground in a Western Desert composition.

Untitled (2002)

Size
153 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Christie’s, Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 August 2005, Lot 38

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists; Utopia Art Sydney.

Price Realised
$26,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2002), depicting a central rockhole surrounded by broad concentric bands representing rolling sandhills in ochre, olive, white and black.

Marrapinti (2002)

Size
183 × 152 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 30 May 2006, Lot 56

Provenance
Arnhemland Arts. Private Collection, Melbourne. Sold with original documentation and photographs of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$15,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Tingari Women's Law, featuring concentric ceremonial sites linked by flowing striped bands in black, white, ochre and red on a rich ochre ground.

Marrapinti (2002)

Size
122 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Shapiro Auctioneers, Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 6 December 2010, Lot 146

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists.

Price Realised
$10,500 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting The Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Marrapinti (2002), featuring broad vertical bands in white, cream and ochre framing a central rockhole motif associated with Marrapinti in Pintupi Country.

Marrapinti (2002)

Size
122 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Shapiro Auctioneers, Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 6 December 2010, Lot 146

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists.

Price Realised
$10,500 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2002), featuring an intricate network of ochre, cream and white dotted ceremonial pathways across a black ground representing the Marrapinti site in Pintupi Country.

Marrapinti (2002)

Size
122 × 152 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Leonard Joel, The Thomas Vroom Collection, Melbourne, 26 February 2017, Lot 282

Provenance
Arnhemland Art. Accompanied by certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$7,500 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Senior Women Camped at the Rockhole Site of Marrapinti (2002), featuring an intricate network of white dotted ceremonial pathways across a vivid red ground representing the Marrapinti site in Pintupi Country.

Senior Women Camped at the Rockhole Site of Marrapinti (2002)

Size
91.5 × 62.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 188

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in January 2002 for Papunya Tula Artists. Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. Private Collection.

Price Realised
$6,500 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2002), featuring sweeping sandhill motifs framing hundreds of concentric ceremonial forms in soft pink, terracotta, white and ochre on a luminous desert ground.

Marrapinti (2002)

Size
122.5 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, The Laverty Collection – Part III, Sydney, 5 April 2017, Lot 46

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. The Colin & Elizabeth Laverty Collection.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2002), featuring an intricate network of turquoise pathways enclosing vibrant orange, red and yellow dotted ceremonial forms across a large abstract composition.

Marrapinti (2002)

Size
144 × 94 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Auction
Leonard Joel, Aboriginal Art & Artifacts, Melbourne, 10 October 2013, Lot 119

Provenance
Accompanied by photographic documentation from Kimberley Art, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$2,800 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2002), featuring concentric sandhill motifs framing ceremonial circles and finely dotted fields in deep red, pink and white associated with Pintupi Country.

Untitled (2002)

Size
61 × 90.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 8 June 2021, Lot 78

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists (Cat. No. NN0208309). Private Collection, NSW. Accompanied by Papunya Tula Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$2,600 AUD

2003

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2003), featuring sweeping striped sandhill forms intersected by intricate geometric pathways in ochre, terracotta, cream and black.

Marrapinti (2003)

Size
122 × 153 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 15 October 2012, Lot 11

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists.

Price Realised
$25,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2003), featuring a dense network of cream, ochre and red dotted ceremonial pathways across a black ground representing the Marrapinti landscape in Pintupi Country.

Marrapinti (2003)

Size
181 × 150 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Menzies, Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 30 November 2017, Lot 75

Provenance
Japingka Gallery, Perth. Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$14,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2003), depicting concentric sandhill formations in rich ochre and burnt orange surrounding a central ceremonial rockhole motif on a dark ground.

Marrapinti (2003)

Size
182 × 152 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Auction
Leonard Joel, Aboriginal Art Timed Auction, Online, 27 July 2018, Lot 10

Provenance
Yanda Aboriginal Art. Accompanied by certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$13,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (Designs Associated with the Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Marrapinti) (2003), featuring parallel sandhill bands dividing fields of concentric ceremonial motifs in ochre, white, black and terracotta.

Untitled (Designs Associated with the Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Marrapinti)

Size
91 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, Australian and International Fine Art; Selected Works from the Estate of Paddy Bedford; Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 21 November 2011, Lot 36A

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in 2003 for Papunya Tula Artists. Private Collection.

Price Realised
$7,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Karrinwarra (2003), featuring interconnected fields of concentric ceremonial motifs in soft pink, cream, terracotta and ochre representing the Karrinwarra rockholes in Pintupi Country.

Karrinwarra (2003)

Size
122 × 91.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art Auction, Melbourne, 25 May 2016, Lot 96

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$6,500 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2003), featuring two sweeping pink sandhill bands separating fields of concentric ceremonial motifs in white, black, ochre and soft pink.

Untitled (2003)

Size
91.5 × 92 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 31 October 2006, Lot 74

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists.

Price Realised
$6,500 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2003), featuring layered horizontal bands of pink, red, cream and white dotting on a black ground, evoking the rolling sandhills of the Western Desert.

Untitled (2003)

Size
91 × 61 cm

Medium
Acrylic on Belgian linen

Auction
Mossgreen, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 13 October 2008, Lot 5

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Utopia Art, Sydney. Private Collection, Sydney. Catalogue No. NN0308074. Accompanied by certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$5,500 AUD

2004

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2004), featuring broad horizontal bands of ochre, terracotta, cream and black representing the rolling sandhills of Marrapinti in Pintupi Country.

Marrapinti (2004)

Size
151.5 × 181 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Menzies, Important Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 20 August 2025, Lot 99

Provenance
Yanda Aboriginal Art; Flinders Lane Gallery.

Price Realised
$38,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2004), featuring a dense network of ochre and cream ceremonial pathways surrounding striped sandhill formations in a richly textured Western Desert composition.

Marrapinti (2004)

Size
151.7 × 121.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Mossgreen, Australian Indigenous & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 6 June 2016, Lot 34

Provenance
Yanda Aboriginal Art. Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$15,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (Marrapinti) (2003), featuring monumental striped sandhill forms in ochre, cream and black surrounding intricate ceremonial pathways in a richly textured abstract composition.

Untitled (Marrapinti) (2003)

Size
183 × 153 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Davidson Auctions, Estate & Collector: Pictures, Sydney, 29 November 2025, Lot 230

Provenance
Yanda Aboriginal Art. Ken Hinds Cultural Heritage Collection.

Price Realised
$14,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2004), featuring an intricate network of cream, ochre, pink and red dotted ceremonial pathways across a black ground representing the Marrapinti landscape in Pintupi Country.

Marrapinti (2004)

Size
122 × 91.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

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

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Tony Bond, Adelaide. Private Collection, Adelaide.

Price Realised
$12,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2004), depicting flowing parallel bands of ochre and terracotta dotting that evoke the rolling sandhills of the Western Desert in an elegant abstract composition.

Untitled (2004)

Size
91 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 28 June 2016, Lot 22

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists.

Price Realised
$8,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2004), depicting sweeping horizontal sandhill bands in ochre, terracotta, cream and white with a cluster of ceremonial motifs in the lower corner.

Untitled (2004)

Size
122 × 107 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 18 May 2011, Lot 63

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$7,500 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting The Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Ngaminya (2004), featuring an intricate network of cream, ochre and terracotta dotted pathways on a black ground representing the Ngaminya rockhole in Pintupi Country.

The Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Ngaminya (2004)

Size
107 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24 July 2007, Lot 97

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists. Utopia Art Sydney.

Price Realised
$6,500 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Women's Dreaming (2004), featuring ceremonial circles, sweeping sandhill forms and interconnected pathways in warm pink, ochre, olive green, cream and black.

Women’s Dreaming (2004)

Size
127 × 100 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 56

Provenance
Red Sand Gallery. Private Collection, South Australia. Sold with original gallery documentation and photographs of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2004), featuring hundreds of concentric yellow and ochre ceremonial motifs scattered across a finely dotted white ground in a luminous Western Desert composition.

Untitled (2004)

Size
107.5 × 91.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Joel Fine Art, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 5 June 2007, Lot 118

Provenance
Painted in 2004 for Papunya Tula Artists. Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne. Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2004), featuring interwoven striped sandhill forms, geometric ceremonial pathways and concentric motifs in ochre, red, cream, yellow and black.

Untitled (2004)

Size
92.5 × 148.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Shapiro Auctioneers, Modern + Contemporary Art, Sydney, 20 March 2005, Lot 23

Provenance
Red Sand Art Gallery, Alice Springs (Cat. No. NATN30). Original certificate of authenticity. Private Collection, Brisbane.

Price Realised
$5,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (Yunala) (2004), featuring an intricate network of cream, ochre and orange dotted pathways on a black ground representing the Yunala rockhole and surrounding sandhills in Pintupi Country.

Untitled (2004)

Size
93.5 × 94 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 2 December 2015, Lot 183

Provenance
Commissioned in 2004 for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs. Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$4,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (2004), featuring an intricate network of cream, pink and ochre dotted ceremonial pathways with striped sandhill motifs on a black ground.

Untitled (2004)

Size
90 × 150 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Theodore Bruce, Fine Aboriginal, Tribal & Oceanic Arts, Sydney, 8 September 2014, Lot 154

Provenance
Painted at Kintore (2004). Red Sand Art Gallery certificate of authenticity with photographs of the artist and work in progress.

Price Realised
$2,600 AUD

Marrapinti (2004) by Naata Nungurrayi, acrylic on linen featuring sweeping concentric forms, rhythmic dotting and a rich palette of red, cream and black inspired by the sacred women's site of Marrapinti.

Marrapinti (2004)

Size
183 × 152 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Mossgreen, The Sydney Sale, Sydney, 30 August 2009, Lot 29

Provenance
Yanda Aboriginal Art; Flinders Lane Gallery.

Price Realised
$20,000 AUD

2005

Naata Nungurrayi painting The Soakage Water Site of Unkunya (2005), depicting concentric sandhill formations surrounding sacred soakage water sites in rich ochre, terracotta, cream and black

The Soakage Water Site of Unkunya, West of the Pollock Hills (2005)

Size
183 × 153 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24 July 2007, Lot 101

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists (Catalogue No. NN0502037).

Price Realised
$180,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2005), featuring monumental flowing bands of ochre, terracotta, cream and black representing the rolling sandhills of the Western

Marrapinti (2005)

Size
182.5 × 306 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, 19 June 2008, Lot 227

Provenance
Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art.

Price Realised
$40,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti Rockhole (2005), depicting ceremonial sites, rockholes, travelling paths and sandhill motifs in rich ochre, brown, cream and black across an intricate aerial landscape.

Marrapinti Rockhole (2005)

Size
121 × 212 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 27

Provenance
Private Collection, Victoria; sold with original documentation and photographs of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$38,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Marrapinti (2005), featuring sweeping horizontal sandhill bands in ochre, cream, pink and brown, rendered with finely dotted lines across the Western Desert landscape.

Marrapinti (2005)

Size
121.5 × 152 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Leonard Joel, The Sonia Heitlinger Collection of Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 February 2018, Lot 37

Provenance
Yanda Aboriginal Art. Accompanied by certificate of authenticity and photographs of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$11,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Marrapinti) (2005), featuring flowing horizontal sandhill bands in rich red, ochre, cream and black with ceremonial rockhole motifs.

Untitled (Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Marrapinti) (2005)

Size
122 × 61 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 17

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in 2005 for Papunya Tula Artists. Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves. Accompanied by Papunya Tula Artists documentation.

Price Realised
$5,600 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (Marrapinti) (2005), combining a geometric network of red sandhill forms with clusters of concentric ceremonial motifs in cream, ochre and brown.

Untitled (Marrapinti) (2005)

Size
91.5 × 61.4 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Mossgreen, Australian Indigenous & Oceanic Art featuring the Helen Read Collection, Melbourne, 6 June 2016, Lot 2

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists (Cat. No. NN0508160). Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$2,600 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Women's Ceremony (2005), featuring vibrant blue concentric motifs scattered across a pink, yellow and ochre dotted ground representing ceremonial sites in Pintupi Country.

Women’s Ceremony (2005)

Size
91 × 61 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 279

Provenance
Kimberley Art. Private Collection, Victoria. Sold with photograph of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$2,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Women's Story (2005), depicting ceremonial motifs and ancestral women's narratives in the artist's distinctive Western Desert style.

Women’s Story (2005)

Size
91 × 61 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 318

Provenance
Private Collection, Victoria. Sold with photograph of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$2,000 AUD

2006 -2008

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (Designs Associated with the Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Ngaminya) (2006), depicting the Ngaminya rockhole and surrounding sandhills in her distinctive flowing Western Desert style.

Untitled (Designs Associated with the Rockhole and Soakage Water Site of Ngaminya) (2006)

Size
106.5 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Bonhams, Important Australian Art, Sydney, 28 November 2023, Lot 16

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists.

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

Naata Nungurrayi painting Untitled (Marrapinti) (2008), depicting ceremonial rockhole sites, bush raisin grounds and sweeping sandhills in warm ochre, orange, cream and black.

Untitled (2008)

Size
122 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Menzies, Australian & International Fine Art, Melbourne, 9 February 2017, Lot 82

Provenance
Yanda Aboriginal Art.

Price Realised
$8,500 AUD

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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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