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Queenie McKenzie value Artworks and Auction results

Works Offered at Auction: 343
Sale Rate: 63%
Highest Sale: $85,000 AUD
Median Sale Price: $7,000 AUD

This is a support page for the main Queenie McKenzie biography and painting style page, with a focus on auction results and the characteristics that appear to influence the value of her work.

Queenie McKenzie paintings have a strong secondary market, with the highest prices generally achieved by large, major compositions depicting her Texas Downs Country and important Dreaming places. Her auction record in this selection is $85,000 AUD for Power Places – Texas Downs Country, 1996, a substantial 163 × 202 cm work exhibited in Spirit and Place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Other important results include My Country on Texas Downs (Triptych), 1996, at $60,000, Dreaming Places – Gidja Country, 1996, at $52,000, and Limestone Hills, Near Texas Downs, 1994, at $46,000. These results suggest that scale, strong provenance, exhibition history and particularly resolved depictions of Country can have a substantial effect on value.

McKenzie is especially recognised for paintings of the hills, springs, rivers and Dreaming places of Texas Downs and surrounding Gija Country, often painted in natural ochres with her distinctive soft pinks and purples. Smaller or less significant works can sell for considerably less, so size, subject, date, provenance and visual quality all need to be considered when assessing an individual painting.

Queenie McKenzie value 1986 – 1990

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting with a black ground, showing a tree, rectangular forms and ochre hills outlined with white dots.

Untitled 1986

Size

60 × 80 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24 June 2002, Lot 98

Provenance

Painted in 1986; Waringarri Arts, Kununurra; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$7,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting showing two black human figures above a curved band, with weapons, tools and oval forms outlined in white dots.

Untitled 1989

Size

61 × 76 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and bush gum on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Fine Aboriginl and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 June 1996, Lot 147

Provenance

Painted at Warmun, Turkey Creek.

Price Realised

$1,300 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting with large red landscape forms divided by yellow and black bands and outlined with rows of white dots.

Untitled c. 1990

Size

89.5 × 120 cm

Medium

Earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1999, Lot 131

Provenance

Not stated

Price Realised

$14,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting showing a large red figure teaching four smaller black figures beneath a white cross-like form.

Teaching About Receiving the Holy Spirit 1990

Size

46 × 61 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 41

Provenance

Not stated

Price Realised

$10,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting with five rounded red-brown hill forms outlined in white dots against a deep black ground.

Loomoogoo (1990)

Size

45.5 × 60.9 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, The Peter Elliott Collection, Day 2., Sydney, 31 August 2015, Lot 299

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Western Australia.

Price Realised

$3,400 AUD

Queenie McKenzie value 1991 – 1993

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting of Gidja Country, with rows of rounded hills in red, pink, yellow and black outlined by white dots.

Untitled (Gidja Country), 1991

Size

60 × 80 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binders on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Modern & Contemporary, Melbourne, 13 June 2018, Lot 56

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra

Price Realised

$19,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape showing a large dotted termite mound before red hills, with layered cream, yellow, black and pink Country.

Texas Downs Country 1991

Size

68 × 114 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and natural binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 82

Price Realised

$7,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with four large black hills above five smaller red hills, divided by curving black tracks on a yellow ground.

Untitled 1992

Size

80 × 100 cm

Medium

Earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1999, Lot 2

Provenance

Not stated

Price Realised

$6,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with rows of red, pink and brown hill forms outlined in white dots beside curving yellow tracks.

Kimiyarriny (The White Mountain and Duncan Highway) 1993

Size

70 × 110 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and natural binders on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 29 July 2003, Lot 104

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts; acquired at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Art Award; Private Collection, Darwin.

Price Realised

$44,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie painting with rows of rounded pink, cream, ochre and black hills beneath a dark red range, with a dotted form at left.

Untitled 1993

Size

120 × 160 cm

Medium

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 31 October 2006, Lot 44

Provenance

Not stated

Price Realised

$28,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape showing sacred hills, white gum trees, bushes and grass, with layered red, pink, yellow and black ridges.

Untitled (Artist’s Country) (1993)

Size

90 × 120 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, The Alan Boxer Collection of Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 17 March 2015, Lot 11

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Artists; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; Alan Boxer Collection, Canberra.

Price Realised

$8,500 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting showing a central female figure between two cross-like forms and two star shapes, outlined with white dots.

Untitled 1993

Size

40 × 50 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 15 November 2005, Lot 94

Provenance

Not stated

Price Realised

$8,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie value 1994

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with rows of rounded hills in red, yellow, black and grey, all finely outlined with white dots.

Duluyn Country 1994

Size

90 × 160 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on linen

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 250

Provenance

Not stated

Price Realised

$22,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting of Kelly’s Knob, with a large red hill, black rocky forms and a yellow path outlined in white dots.

Thegoowiyeng (Kelly’s Knob), 1994

Size

50 × 70 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 30 March 2022, Lot 60

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra; The Gallery, Canberra Grammar School; Private Collection, Canberra, acquired 1994.

Price Realised

$10,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with five rounded red, brown and yellow hills surrounding a central broad-topped form on a black ground.

Hills of Old Texas, 1994

Size

61 × 81 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Art Leven, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Sydney, 29 May 2018, Lot 7

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists; Kimberley Art, Victoria; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$3,800 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape filled with overlapping limestone hills in yellow, red, black, white and grey above a broad yellow foreground.

Limestone Hills, Near Texas Downs 1994

Size

125.5 × 247.5 cm

Medium

Earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1999, Lot 117

Price Realised

$46,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with stylised brown and black hills divided by a horizontal track on a golden yellow ground.

Dahloo Dahloo 1994

Size

90.5 × 162.5 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on linen

Auction

Leonard Joel, Fine Art, Melbourne, 5 June 2018, Lot 68

Provenance

Warmun Art Centre, Western Australia; Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised

$7,500 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with layered red, pink, cream and black hills, including the large rounded Mandablin Hill in the background.

Downs Country, 1994

Size

80 × 120 cm

Medium

Natural pigments on paper

Auction

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

Provenance

Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, catalogue KA.QM.H00I/94.

Price Realised

$5,600 AUD

Queenie McKenzie value 1995

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape filled with overlapping rocky hills in red, yellow, white and black, each outlined with white dots.

Limestone Hills, Texas, 1995

Size

92 × 92 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 23 June 2020, Lot 6

Provenance

Warmun Pensioner Unit; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$8,500 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with rows of red, yellow, black and white hills beneath a blue-grey sky and a winding road below.

Road to Old Texas, 1995

Size

109 × 203.5 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on linen

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art Auction, Sydney, 23 November 2004, Lot 44

Provenance

Commissioned directly from the artist at Warmun, 1995; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$44,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape showing three dark brown groups of rounded hills outlined with white dots against a golden yellow ground.

Jutany Country, 1995

Size

60 × 90 cm

Medium

Ochre on linen

Auction

Art Leven, First Nations Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 12 November 2024, Lot 89

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts; Private Collection, Queensland; Private Collection, New South Wales.

Price Realised

$18,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with groups of rounded orange, pink and brown hills divided by a curving black track on a blue-grey ground.

Winnama Springs, 1995

Size

85 × 128 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 23 May 2007, Lot 36

Provenance

Warmun Pensioner’s Unit; Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$26,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape of Lissadell Station at evening, with layered red, black and yellow hills, trees and a winding track

Evening Lissadell Station, 1995

Size

103.5 × 120. cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on linen

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art Auction, Sydney, 23 November 2004, Lot 79

Provenance

Commissioned directly from the artist at Warmun Community, Turkey Creek.

Price Realised

$15,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with densely layered red, pink, grey, white and black limestone hills outlined by rows of white dots.

Limestone Country – Old Texas, 1994

Size

61 × 76 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 11 October 2022, Lot 49

Provenance

Neil McLeod Fine Art, Victoria; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$14,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape filled with overlapping pointed limestone hills in gold, red, mauve, white and black, outlined with white dots.

Limestone Hills Near Texas Downs, 1995

Size

73 × 89 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on Belgian linen

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 9 November 2005, Lot 11

Provenance

Commissioned directly from the artist at Warmun Pensioner Unit; Private Collection, Canberra; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$12,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape of Old Texas Station with red and orange hills, black ridges, white trees and a winding black creek.

Old Texas Station c. 1995

Size

91 × 118 cm

Medium

Earth pigment on canvas

Auction

Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art and a Collection of New Ireland Malagan Sculptures, Melbourne, 27 June 2000, Lot 390

Provenance

Not stated

Price Realised

$8,500 AUD

Queenie McKenzie landscape with red, orange and brown hills divided by a winding black track, all outlined with white dots.

Texas Country/ Bow River 1995

Size

57 × 76 cm

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Auction

Bonhams & Goodman, Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 17 November 2004, Lot 178

Provenance

Aboriginal Desert Art Gallery, Melbourne; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$4,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting showing two white owls beneath a tree, surrounded by black rocky forms on a red ground.

Mook Mook Owl From Pompei Pillar Near Turnoff to Argyle Mine, 1995

Size

61 × 76 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigment canvas

Auction

Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 20 June 2023, Lot 22

Provenance

Warmun Pensioner Unit; Art Mob, Tasmania; Private Collection, Tasmania.

Price Realised

$11,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting showing a fallen figure, trees, cattle, hills and a winding yellow track across a blue-grey landscape

When Queenie Saved Rover, 1995

Size

40.5 × 60 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, The Collection of William and Lucy Mora, Fine Abor, Melbourne, 21 July 2010, Lot 53

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra; William and Lucy Mora Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$10,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting of the Carboyd Ranges as interlocking diamond-shaped hills in yellow, pink, red, grey and black.

Texas Hills (Carboyd Ranges), 1995

Size

76 × 61 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 20 October 2020, Lot 5

Provenance

Warmun Pensioner Unit; Neil McLeod Fine Art, Victoria; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$8,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with layered red and black hills, white trees and a central black hill divided by a winding red track.

Mingmurriah, 1995

Size

61 × 92 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 31 May 2005, Lot 304

Provenance

Warmun Pensioner Unit, 1995; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$7,500 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting with two groups of black rounded hills, the upper group crossed by red and white dotted bands on a red ground.

Jootal (Tick Dreaming) 1995

Size

60 × 90 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 247

Provenance

Not stated

Price Realised

$5,500 AUD

Queenie McKenzie value 1996

Queenie McKenzie three-panel ochre landscape of Texas Downs, with layered black and red hills, white waterways and a boab tree outlined in dots.

My Country on Texas Downs (Triptych) 1996

Size

160.5 × 80 cm (each panel)

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24 June 2002, Lot 100

Provenance

Red Rock Art Kununurra. Private collection Queensland

Price Realised

$60,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape mapping Gidja Country with pink, brown, yellow and white hills, a fishing hole, waterways and patterned ranges.

Dreaming Places – Gidja Country, 1996

Size

200 × 160 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on linen

Auction

Art Leven, Aboriginal & Oceanic Works of Art, Sydney, 16 November 2017, Lot 39

Provenance

Waringarri Arts, Kununurra; William Mora Galleries, Melbourne; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$52,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape mapping Texas Downs Country with pink and black hills, rockholes, caves and branching creeks on a brown ground.

Texas Downs Country c. 1996

Size

200 × 160 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July 2001, Lot 68

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts Kununurra. Private collection Queensland.

Price Realised

$35,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting with large angular pink and black hills, a central bower bird motif and a zigzag border on a red ground.

Tjoowishgunnan (Bower Bird Hills), 1996

Size

91.5 × 121.5 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments with synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Selected Aboriginal Works of Art – Online, Melbourne, 8 December 2020, Lot 3

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists, Turkey Creek; Pearlers Row Gallery, Broome; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired 1999.

Price Realised

$7,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting with rows of black, white, red and yellow hills beside a group of ancestral spirit figures beneath white forms.

Spirits of Texas Downs 1996

Size

121 × 121 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July 2001, Lot 67

Provenance

Narranguany Arts, Cable Beach, Western Australia; Private Collection, Western Australia.

Price Realised

$24,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with pale pink rounded hills, a striped rock formation and two golden hills against a blue-grey ground.

Moolagar, 1996

Size

106.5 × 137 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments with synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal Art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney, 8 March 2015, Lot 33

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists, Turkey Creek; Colin and Elizabeth Laverty Collection, Sydney, acquired 1996.

Price Realised

$19,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting celebrating a football final, with goalposts, dotted football shapes, decorative scrolls and five hills on an orange ground.

Saint George and Manly – The Finalists 1996

Size

121.5 × 151 cm

Medium

Earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art and a Collection of New Ireland Malagan Sculptures, Melbourne, 27 June 2000, Lot 110

Provenance

Commissioned directly from the artist by Pirra Fine Arts, Melbourne. Private collection, Melbourne

Price Realised

$17,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting with two large layered black, white and brown hill forms above a patterned band and pink hills.

Banana Springs 1996

Size

91 × 122 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Leonard Joel, The Thomas Vroom Collection, Melbourne, 26 February 2017, Lot 213

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists.

Price Realised

$5,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape mapping Texas Downs Country with boab trees, rivers and sacred hills in black, pink, white and brown.

Power Places – Texas Downs Country 1996

Size

163 × 202 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 49

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra; William Mora Gallery; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$85,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape of the Toomerinji “talking hills,” with layered pink and dark brown rounded hills outlined in white dots.

Oomerinji 1996

Size

120 × 90 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 25 July 2005, Lot 197

Provenance

Painted at Warmun, East Kimberley; Private Collection, Perth.

Price Realised

$13,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting showing two large brown and pink owls above a curved cave and four rounded hills in red, yellow and black

Domboyn – Owls, 1996

Size

120 × 90 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigment on canvas

Auction

Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 23 June 2020, Lot 71

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists; Flinders Lane Gallery, Victoria; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$11,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting showing armed figures, fallen people, a tree, track and red hills representing the Horso Creek killings.

Horso Creek Killings, c. 1996

Size

61 × 91 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 31 May 2005, Lot 42

Provenance

Warmun Pensioner Unit, Western Australia; Private Collection, South Australia.

Price Realised

$9,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting showing three large brown owls, including a smaller young owl, above a curved black and pink cave form.

Mook Mook Owls with Young, 1996

Size

90.5 × 90.5 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on Belgian linen

Auction

Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 20 October 2020, Lot 67

Provenance

Warmun Pensioner Unit; Neil McLeod Fine Art, Victoria; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$7,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie value 1997

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting with two large rounded brown hills beneath a sweeping black and brown band, surrounded by dense white marks

Rainbow Snake Over Texas Downs (1997)

Size

90 × 116 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, The Anthony & Beverly Knight Collection of Early Papunya Art (Lots 1 – 46); Important Aboriginal & Oceanic Art (Lots 47, Melbourne, 28 May 2013, Lot 94

Provenance

Warmun Art Centre; Utopia Art, Sydney; Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised

$24,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with four tall black hills above a broad four-peaked black range, outlined in pink and white dots on brown.

High Country on Texas Downs, 1998

Size

80.5 × 100 cm

Medium

Ochre on canvas

Auction

Art Leven, First Nations Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 12 November 2024, Lot 69

Provenance

Estate of Queenie McKenzie; Waringarri Aboriginal Arts; Red Rock Art; Jacquie McPhee Collection, Western Australia.

Price Realised

$20,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with scattered black, red, pale blue and white hills surrounding a complex central spring form on orange ground.

Woolwoolji Springs 1997

Size

Not stated

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on linen

Auction

Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24 June 2002, Lot 230

Provenance

Painted at Warmun (Turkey Creek)

Price Realised

$16,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting of Kilfoyle's Vineyard, with dark red rounded hills and smaller landforms against a broad grey ground.

Kilfoyle’s Vineyard, 1997

Size

120 × 150 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments with synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian & International Fine Art, Melbourne, 28 November 2018, Lot 78

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; Private Collection, Sydney, acquired 1999.

Price Realised

$7,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre landscape with large pale pink and brown rounded hills surrounded by smaller hills on a deep black ground.

Iraki Country 1997

Size

90 × 120 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 30 May 2006, Lot 102

Provenance

Warmun Arts Centre; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$30,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting with pink hills, arched bands and three stylised waterlily forms against a rich orange ground.

Karyang (Waterlilies)

Size

90 × 120 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2004, Lot 123

Provenance

Painted at Warmun, 1997; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; Private Collection, Canberra.

Price Realised

$15,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting of Mary and Joseph beneath a star-filled black sky, surrounded by stylised trees and small figures.

Mary and Joseph, 1997

Size

61 × 91 cm

Medium

Ochre on canvas

Auction

Art Leven, First Nations & Australian Fine Art Auction Sydney, 19 May 2026, Lot 73

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists; Collection of Dame Marie Bashir and Sir Nicholas Shehadie, Sydney.

Price Realised

$12,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting of Argyle Diamond Mine, with interlocking black, pink, grey, yellow and red landforms outlined in white dots.

Diamond Mine (Argyle), 1997

Size

101 × 100 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Menzies, Important Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2024, Lot 81

Provenance

Narrangunny Art Traders; Private Collection, Victoria; Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 2007; Private Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised

$10,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting of the Purnululu Bungle Bungles, with rows of rounded striped rock formations outlined in red and white dots.

Purnululu – Bungle Bungles c. 1997

Size

35.5 × 45.5 cm

Medium

Earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art and a Collection of New Ireland Malagan Sculptures, Melbourne, 27 June 2000, Lot 344

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist; Private Collection, Perth.

Price Realised

$1,900 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting of Joseph and Mary beneath a dark star-filled sky, with small child, animal and plants below.

Joseph and Mary, 1997

Size

61 × 91 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigmenton canvas

Auction

Art Leven, Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 20 June 2023, Lot 63

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists, Western Australia; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$5,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie ochre painting of three Mook Mook owls within a large blue-grey cave, surrounded by red Country and a stylised tree.

. Mook Mook Owls and Young At Pompei(I) Pillar Near Turn off to Argyle Mine

Size

76 × 101 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on Belgian linen

Auction

Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd, Australian & Historical, Day 2 (Art lots only), Melbourne, 4 December 2022, Lot 1191

Provenance

The Joyce Evans estate

Price Realised

$5,000 AUD

Queenie McKenzie value 1998

Ochre painting on a yellow ground with rows of rounded red and brown hills outlined in white dots, a sweeping black shape beneath the upper hills, and a large pale green form with three pink-centred arches across the bottom.

Winnaba Springs, 1996

Size

152 × 122 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Bonhams, Important Australian Art; Important Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 1 December 2015, Lot 37

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists, Western Australia ( Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney. Private collection, Queensland.

Price Realised

$19,000 AUD

Ochre painting with eight tall black rounded hills arranged in two rows on a yellow ground, each crossed by pink horizontal bands and outlined with white dots, within a broad black dotted border.

Mingmarriya Country, 1998

Size

40.5 × 51 cm

Medium

Natural ochres

Auction

Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 9 November 2005, Lot 97

Provenance

Estate of Queenie McKenzie; Red Rock Art, Kununurra.

Price Realised

$3,600 AUD

Ochre painting with overlapping arched red-brown hills on a black ground, crossed by sweeping curved bands outlined with rows of white dots and enclosed by a yellow dotted border.

Untitled, 1998

Size

90 × 120 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 24 March 2010, Lot 68

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra; Tineriba Fine Arts, Hahndorf; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

$18,000 AUD

Ochre painting on a black ground with four large red and green hill-like forms, outlined in white dots, beneath layered curved lines and enclosed geometric shapes.

Jingarrooroo 1998

Size

120 × 90 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigment on canvas

Auction

Mossgreen Auctions, Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 8 April 2008, Lot 119

Provenance

Warmun Traditional Artists. Private collection Melbourne

Price Realised

$28,000 AUD

Koornoochi Country

Size

80.5 × 100 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2010, Lot 207

Provenance

Commissioned by Red Rock Art, Kununurra in 1998. Private collection

Price Realised

$15,000 AUD

Ochre painting with rows of rounded red and black hill forms outlined in white dots, including a long scalloped range across the top, arranged on a red earth ground within a double dotted border.

Balankerr, Lajibany and Manyjoorroo Country, 1998

Size

61.5 × 91.5 cm

Medium

Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on canvas

Auction

Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian & International Fine Art; Important Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 29 November 2017, Lot 75

Provenance

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra; Cooee Gallery, Sydney; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$5,500 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.

Queenie McKenzie references

Images of Power

Written in the Land

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