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Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values and auction results

Works Offered at Auction: 651
Sale Rate: 49%
Highest Sale: $245,000 AUD
Median Sale Price: $4,800 AUD

This is a support page for Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, focusing on his auction results and the market for his paintings. For his life, Country, artistic development, subjects and distinctive painting style, see the main Ronnie Tjampitjinpa biography and painting style page.

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa paintings can range from a few thousand dollars to well over $100,000 AUD, with his finest works achieving considerably more. His auction market is highly selective, with value influenced by the date, size, subject, provenance and, particularly, whether a painting has strong Papunya Tula Artists documentation.

The highest recorded result in this collection is Tingari Ceremonies at the Site of Pintjun, 1989, which sold for $280,000 AUD. Other major results include Ngarru, 2008, at $180,000 AUD, Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay), 1993, at $124,000 AUD, and Designs Relating to the Site of Kampurarrpa, 1999, at $75,000 AUD.

These exceptional prices should not be taken as the value of a typical Ronnie Tjampitjinpa painting. Many authenticated works sell in the $5,000–$30,000 AUD range, while important paintings with strong provenance, desirable subjects, major scale and exceptional visual quality can command substantially more.

The auction results below provide more than 100 examples spanning Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s career and show how dramatically values can vary between individual works.

If you own a Ronnie Tjampitjinpa painting and would like an opinion on its value, or are considering selling it, please send clear photographs of the front and back, its dimensions, and any Papunya Tula Artists certificate, catalogue number or other provenance you have.

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Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 1972-1973

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Ceremonial Dreaming (1972), an early Papunya painting with three large concentric circles, connecting lines, elongated ceremonial forms and dotted geometric motifs in red, yellow, white and black on an ochre ground.

Ceremonial Dreaming, 1972

Size
50.6 × 30.6 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and Bondcrete on composition board

Auction
Sotheby’s, The Anthony & Beverly Knight Collection of Early Papunya Art; Important Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 28 May 2013, Lot 14

Provenance
Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory, May 1972; The Collection of Pat Hogan, 

Price Realised
$26,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (1972), an early Papunya painting filled with concentric circles, elongated black ceremonial forms, fine parallel lines and repeated geometric motifs in red, yellow, white and black.

Untitled, 1972

Size
45.5 × 32 cm

Medium
Natural earth pigments and synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 173

Provenance
Not stated in the source entry.

Price Realised
$24,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (1972), a long horizontal Papunya painting with repeated concentric circles, oval forms, connecting lines and black elongated motifs surrounded by dense red, yellow, white and ochre linear patterning.

Untitled, 1972

Size
64 × 18 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer/powder paint on composition board

Auction
Sotheby’s, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 June 1996, Lot 199

Provenance
Consignment 11 to the Stuart Art Centre, Alice Springs; acquired by the vendor from the Stuart Art Centre in 1972. Sold in its original Stuart Art Centre frame.

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 1988-1990

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Kwala at Tjiterlunga (1988), featuring large layered rectangular forms made from parallel bands of white, ochre, pink, brown and black, beneath a row of eight concentric circles.

Kwala at Tjiterlunga, 1988

Size
122 × 153 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2010, Lot 121

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in 1988; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Tambaran Gallery, New York; Donald Kahn Collection.

Price Realised
$28,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Porcupine Dreaming (1988), with rows of concentric circles joined by parallel lines and surrounded by angular geometric pathways in earthy pink, brown, ochre and green tones.

Porcupine Dreaming, 1988

Size
122 × 152 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 23 May 2007, Lot 185

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, cat. no. RT880839; Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, cat. no. 3311; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

 

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (Tingari Story) (1988), densely patterned with interconnected concentric circles, parallel lines and angular geometric forms in red, yellow and black.

Untitled (Tingari Story), 1988

Size
152.5 × 120 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 10 May 2017, Lot 74

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Private Collection, Sydney. Papunya Tula Artists cat. no. RT8805118.

Price Realised
$8,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Ceremonies at the Site of Pintjun (1989), with a large central concentric form surrounded by sweeping parallel bands of black, white, ochre, red and grey.

Tingari Ceremonies at the Site of Pintjun, 1989

Size
152 × 180 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 13 December 2019, Lot 13

Provenance
Painted at Kintore for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, 1989; The Gabrielle Pizzi Collection; thence by descent.

Price Realised
$280,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled Tingari Painting (1989), divided into four large rectangular fields filled with nested linear forms in black, white, yellow, red and ochre.

Untitled Tingari Painting, 1989

Size
183 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 9 July 2001, Lot 64

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in October 1989; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Private Collection, United Kingdom.

Price Realised
$24,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Moon Dreaming at Maanytja (1989), composed of nested rectangular bands radiating from a small central form in black, white, ochre and pale blue.

Moon Dreaming at Maanytja, 1989

Size
152 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 74

Provenance
Not stated in the source entry.

Price Realised
$25,000 AUD

 

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Wild Potato Dreaming at Muyinga, West of Kintore (1990), formed from interlocking black and ochre lines creating rectangular spirals and elongated oval motifs across the canvas.

Wild Potato Dreaming at Muyinga, West of Kintore, 1990

Size
151.5 × 182 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26 July 2010, Lot 52

Provenance
Painted at Red Bank in 1990; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Gabrielle Pizzi Collection.

Price Realised
$40,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 1991-1993

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Water Dreaming at Maparrinya (1991), featuring a large central concentric circle connected by parallel lines to four smaller circular forms, surrounded by bold black and ochre geometric bands.

Water Dreaming at Maparrinya, 1991

Size
97.5 × 97.5 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), First Nations & Australian Fine Art Auction – Featuring the Collection of Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO & Sir Nicholas Shehadie, Sydney, 19 May 2026, Lot 45

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, cat. no. RT911261; Private Collection, Switzerland; Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 3 March 2022, Lot 30; Private Collection, Victoria. Accompanied by a Papunya Tula Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$16,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Two Boys at Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) (1992), featuring four large rounded geometric forms built from concentric bands of red, black, white and grey.

Two Boys at Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay), 1992

Size
152 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24 June 2002, Lot 40

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in 1992; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Private Collection, Canberra.

Price Realised
$67,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (1992), featuring four bold rectangular motifs formed from repeated concentric black and white bands, arranged across a horizontal canvas.

Untitled, 1992

Size
91 × 152 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 29 July 2003, Lot 111

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in December 1992; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Utopia Art Sydney; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$15,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (Kaakaratintja – Lake MacDonald) (1992), featuring a large central concentric circle with four projecting oval forms, surrounded by bold black and ochre geometric bands and white dotted lines.

Untitled (Kaakaratintja – Lake MacDonald), 1992

Size
45 × 60 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas board

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), First Nations Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 12 November 2024, Lot 93

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, cat. no. RT920406; Private Collection, NSW. Accompanied by a Papunya Tula Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$7,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (1992), composed of nested rectangular bands of black, white and ochre surrounding a narrow central linear form.

Untitled, 1992

Size
46 × 61 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvasboard

Auction
Leonard Joel, Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 24 February 2021, Lot 107

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Estate of Ken Hutchison, Melbourne. Papunya Tula cat. no. RT920407.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) (1993), featuring four large nested rectangular forms made from repeated black, pale pink and yellow lines arranged across the canvas.

Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay), 1993

Size
182 × 153 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian & International Fine Art; Important Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 29 November 2017, Lot 46

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Utopia Art Sydney; Peter and Des Hunter, Sydney; Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 26 June 2000, Lot 119; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$124,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Old Woman and Her Two Children (Thunder and Lightning) (1993), featuring a central concentric circle surrounded by four large rectangular fields of repeated pink, yellow and dark grey lines.

Old Woman and Her Two Children (Thunder and Lightning), 1993

Size
152.5 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian + International Fine Art, Sydney, 10 April 2019, Lot 77

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in March 1993; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Private Collection, Sydney; Company Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2004.

Price Realised
$15,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 1994-1995

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Two Women Dreaming at Kurakuratja (1994), featuring a central black oval surrounded by concentric bands and large rectangular linear forms in red, black, pink and yellow.

Two Women Dreaming at Kurakuratja, 1994

Size
122 × 200 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 28 June 1999, Lot 105

Provenance
The source records the artist’s name and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue no. RT940806 on the reverse.

Price Realised
$10,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (Eagle Dreaming at Tjaru) (1994), featuring a network of red and black concentric circles joined by parallel lines and surrounded by repeated elongated loop forms on a pale ochre ground.

Untitled (Eagle Dreaming at Tjaru), 1994

Size
181 × 151 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 24

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in 1994; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves. Sold with accompanying Papunya Tula Artists documentation.

Price Realised
$8,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tjilkamatu (Echidna) Dreaming at Tukun (1994), featuring a large central concentric circle connected to four smaller circular forms in vivid red, black and yellow.

Tjilkamatu (Echidna) Dreaming at Tukun (North of Kintore), 1994

Size
122 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, Contemporary and Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 18 June 1995, Lot 362

Provenance
Accompanied by a Papunya Tula certificate.

Price Realised
$3,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (1995), featuring dense parallel yellow and dark blue lines forming three large rectangular fields around elongated red central forms and a small central oval.

Untitled, 1995

Size
152 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen canvas

Auction
Sotheby’s, The WMC Collection of Australian Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 15 March 2004, Lot 23

Provenance
Painted in 1995 at Kintore for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Utopia Art, Sydney; Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$24,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Eagle Dreaming (1995), featuring sweeping concentric bands of pink, yellow, red and black crossed by a horizontal red line connecting four pale pink circular forms.

Eagle Dreaming (also known as Tingari), 1995

Size
152.5 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Menzies, Important Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 7 May 2026, Lot 60

Provenance
Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne, stock no. 5036; Private Collection, Victoria. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings.

Price Realised
$16,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Wapilka (1995), featuring four large nested rectangular forms created from repeated dark grey and red lines, joined through a cross-like network at the centre.

Wapilka, 1995

Size
121.5 × 121.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Twenty Classics of Australian Art + Important Australian & International Fine Art, Melbourne, 11 November 2020, Lot 54

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane; Private Collection, Melbourne. Accompanied by an artist profile and Papunya Tula Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$10,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari (1995), featuring a grid-like field of nested rectangular forms in red, white and black, each surrounding a smaller central geometric motif.

Tingari, 1995

Size
183 × 91.7 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 29 June 1999, Lot 234

Provenance
Not stated in the source.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Cycle (1995), featuring interconnected white concentric circles, parallel travelling lines and looped forms arranged across a black ground.

Tingari Cycle, 1995

Size
124.5 × 90 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 351

Provenance
Not stated in the source.

Price Realised
$2,600 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa) (1995), featuring a central yellow concentric circle surrounded by opposing triangular forms and broad pink and black parallel bands.

Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa), 1995

Size
61 × 91.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 20 October 2020, Lot 9

Provenance
Field collected by Paul Walsh, NT, cat. no. 050195RT; Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Vic, cat. no. 4420; Hank Ebes Collection, Vic. 

Price Realised
$2,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 1996

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Kumpuralgna (1996), a monumental horizontal painting filled with concentric circles, interconnected lines and dense rectangular geometric patterns in white, red, yellow and ochre.

Kumpuralgna, 1996

Size
187 × 360 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Menzies, Important Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Sydney, 10 December 2015, Lot 53

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Victoria; Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 19 March 2008, Lot 222; Private Collection, Melbourne; Menzies, Sydney, 23 March 2010, Lot 72; Company Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$65,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Moon Dreaming at Maanytja (1996), featuring a large central concentric circle surrounded by eight radiating geometric forms in alternating red and dark brown lines.

Moon Dreaming at Maanytja, 1996

Size
121 × 121 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 25 May 2022, Lot 57

Provenance
Painted in October 1996 for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs (cat. no. RT9610157); Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above.

Price Realised
$32,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (1996), featuring six nested rectangular forms in red, yellow, pale blue and black, divided by a broad horizontal band of parallel lines.

Untitled, 1996

Size
91 × 61 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), First Nations & Australian Fine Art Auction – Featuring the Collection of Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO & Sir Nicholas Shehadie, Sydney, 19 May 2026, Lot 46

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, cat. no. RT961240; Private Collection, Western Australia; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$10,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari (1996), featuring five large concentric circular forms in red, orange and cream, separated by smaller rectangular and triangular geometric motifs.

Tingari, 1996

Size
88 × 120.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Aboriginal Works of Art, Sydney, 3 December 2019, Lot 16

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, cat. no. RT9607137; Utopia Art Sydney, NSW; Private Collection, NSW; Annette Larkin Fine Art, NSW; Spinifex & Sand Collection, Tasmania; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$5,900 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Cycle (1996), featuring twenty irregular nested rectangular forms arranged in a grid, with deep blue centres surrounded by repeated black and white linear bands.

Tingari Cycle, 1996

Size
123 × 156 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Phillips Auctioneers, 20th Century Art & Design, Sydney, 16 November 1999, Lot 2

Provenance
Inscribed “Ronnie” verso.

Price Realised
$5,800 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Untitled (1996), featuring six nested rectangular geometric forms in white, grey, black, yellow and red, divided by narrow linear pathways.

Untitled, 1996

Size
122 × 61 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Mossgreen Auctions, The Alan Boxer Collection of Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 17 March 2015, Lot 46

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists

Price Realised
$3,400 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Cycle (1996), featuring a dense network of white concentric circles and connecting lines beside a large central roundel and sweeping bands of orange, brown, yellow and white.

Tingari Cycle, 1996

Size
122 × 91 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Leonard Joel, Aboriginal & Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 21 July 2008, Lot 52

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, NT; Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne; Private Collection. AGOD certificate supplied.

Price Realised
$2,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 1997

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Cycle (1997), a monumental horizontal painting filled with networks of concentric circles, connecting lines, looped forms and geometric motifs in cream, brown, red and pale blue.

Tingari Cycle, 1997

Size
212 × 374 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Menzies, Important Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Sydney, 10 December 2015, Lot 52

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne; Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 19 June 2008, Lot 221; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$50,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Ceremonies at the Waterhole Site of Pinari (1997), featuring dense networks of nested rectangular and oval forms in yellow, white and black, linked by short parallel lines across contrasting grey and blue fields.

Tingari Ceremonies at the Waterhole Site of Pinari, 1997

Size
183 × 152 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Melbourne, 24 March 2010, Lot 96

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Private Collection, United States of America.

Price Realised
$30,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Cycle (1997), featuring large interlocking oval and rectangular forms made from bold concentric yellow and black bands across the canvas.

Tingari Cycle, 1997

Size
183 × 153 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art Auction, Melbourne, 25 May 2016, Lot 24

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Utopia Art Sydney; Gene and Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney.

Price Realised
$20,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Cycle (1997), featuring a dense grid of repeated nested rectangular forms painted in vivid red and black across the entire canvas.

Tingari Cycle, 1997

Size
200 × 130 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 16

Provenance
Commissioned directly from the artist; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$12,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Designs (Site of Pangpanga) (1997), featuring large pink and red concentric circles connected by parallel lines, with smaller circular forms arranged across a blue-grey ground.

Tingari Designs (Site of Pangpanga), 1997

Size
122 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 7 June 2011, Lot 162

Provenance
Painted at Kintore, Northern Territory; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, stock no. RT970929; Private Collection, Belgium. Sold with a Papunya Tula Artists certificate.

Price Realised
$8,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Cycle (1997), featuring a black network of large and small concentric circles joined horizontally, vertically and diagonally by groups of parallel lines on a white ground

Tingari Cycle, 1997

Size
180 × 120 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Phillips Auctioneers, 20th Century Art & Design, Sydney, 2 May 1999, Lot 146

Provenance
Not stated in the source.

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s Tingari Cycle (1997), featuring two large concentric circular forms joined at the centre and surrounded by rhythmic bands of black, white, ochre, orange and pale green.

Tingari Cycle, 1997

Size
91 × 61 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Shapiro Auctioneers, Modern + Contemporary Art, Sydney, 20 March 2005, Lot 109

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, NT, cat. no. RT970773; Private Collection, Sydney. Accompanied by the original certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$3,200 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 1998

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Untitled 1998 painting, with repeated rectangular concentric line motifs arranged across black, white and red ochre fields.

Untitled, 1998

Size
183 × 153 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 29 July 2003, Lot 112

Provenance
Painted in May 1998; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$44,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari 1998 painting, composed of repeated red ochre and white concentric rectangular forms arranged in a geometric grid.

Tingari, 1998

Size
152 × 121 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 24

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, cat. no. RT980676; Private Collection, New South Wales. Sold with original art centre documentation.

Price Realised
$15,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Cycle 1998 painting, featuring eight large concentric rectangular forms outlined with closely spaced red, white and dark lines on a black ground.

Tingari Cycle, 1998

Size
250 × 150 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher~Menzies,  Melbourne, 10 August 1998, Lot 20

Provenance
Commissioned by the vendor in January 1998; Private Collection, Melbourne. 

Price Realised
$6,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Water Dreaming 1998 painting, with dense flowing parallel lines in orange, yellow, black and grey forming large interlocking geometric shapes

Water Dreaming, 1998

Size
200 × 125 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Phillips Auctioneers, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 24 July 2000, Lot 78

Provenance
Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$5,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Rockhole Site of Pukulnya 1998 painting, with twelve concentric circular motifs linked by white parallel lines against a red ochre, cream and brown patterned ground

Rockhole Site of Pukulnya, 1998

Size
121 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Aboriginal & Oceanic Arts, Sydney, 24 June 2013, Lot 13

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, stock no. RT980127.

Price Realised
$850 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 1999

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Designs Relating to the Site of Kampurarrpa 1999 painting, with interlocking black and white concentric rectangular forms surrounding smaller ochre geometric motifs.

Designs Relating to the Site of Kampurarrpa, 1999

Size
183 × 152 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 13 December 2019, Lot 21

Provenance
Painted at Kiwirrkurra in 1999; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; The Helen Read Collection, France.

Price Realised
$75,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Water Story 1999 painting, with hundreds of closely spaced red and cream parallel lines bending and converging into large interlocking geometric forms.

Water Story, 1999

Size
175.5 × 342 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), The Rod Menzies Estate | Indigenous and Oceanic Art Collection | Part I, Sydney, 8 November 2023, Lot 33

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Victoria, cat. no. KA00504; Private Collection, Victoria; Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, March 2009, Lot 123; Menzies Estate Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari 1999 painting, with repeated ochre and white concentric rectangular forms arranged in rows across the linen.

Tingari, 1999

Size
183 × 122 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), First Nations Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 12 November 2024, Lot 11

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, cat. no. RT990175; Mossenson Galleries, Western Australia; Private Collection, South Australia. Accompanied by a Papunya Tula Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$18,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Wallaby and Bushfire Dreamings 1999 painting, with broad horizontal bands of closely spaced red, blue and cream parallel lines

Wallaby and Bushfire Dreamings, 1999

Size
91 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 23 May 2023, Lot 40

Provenance
Painted for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, 1999, cat. no. RT990763; Private Collection.

Price Realised
$15,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Ninu (Greater Bilby) Dreaming at Tjiturrulnga 1999 painting, with two elongated concentric forms flanking a central field of closely spaced horizontal black lines.

Ninu (Greater Bilby) Dreaming at Tjiturrulnga, 1999

Size
91 × 61 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 4 December 2020, Lot 30

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists catalogue no. RT991169 recorded on the reverse; Scott Livesey Galleries label attached to the stretcher.

Price Realised
$7,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Ninu (Greater Bilby) Dreaming at Tjiturrulnga 1999 painting, with repeated black concentric rectangular forms across a vivid red-orange ground.

Tingari Cycle, 1999

Size
122 × 92 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Aboriginal Works of Art, Sydney, 3 December 2019, Lot 36

Provenance
Yanda Art, NT, cat. no. R2; Creative Native Gallery, WA; Private Collection, New York, USA.

Price Realised

$3,750 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Moon Dreaming 1999 painting, featuring a large circular design of concentric black, white and ochre rings radiating from a central circle.

Moon Dreaming, 1999

Size
61 × 55 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 30 May 2006, Lot 187

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, cat. no. RT991053; Private Collection, Melbourne. Sold with original Papunya Tula Artists documentation.

Price Realised
$2,200 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 2000-2001

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Water Story 2000 painting, with dense white parallel lines bending and converging into interlocking geometric forms across a long black field.

Water Story, 2000

Size
181 × 412.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
The Rod Menzies Estate | Indigenous Art Collection Part II, Sydney, 5 March 2024, Lot 33

Provenance
Fireworks Gallery, Queensland, cat. no. FW8502; 

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Echidna Dreaming 2000 painting, with four large concentric geometric forms painted in alternating red and orange lines across a square canvas

Echidna Dreaming, 2000

Size
122 × 122 cm

Medium
Not stated in the source

Auction
Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 21 April 2024, Lot 213

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Private Collection, Melbourne. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Papunya Tula Artists cat. no. RT0011055.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Bushfire Dreaming 2000 painting, with dense vertical white and red lines divided by a sweeping black horizontal band across a black ground.

Bushfire Dreaming, 2000

Size
301.5 × 179 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Auction
Leonard Joel, The Thomas Vroom Collection, Melbourne, 26 February 2017, Lot 313

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Melbourne. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Fire and Water Dreaming 2001 painting, with dense fields of fine white, yellow and orange lines crossed by red pathways and small concentric rectangular motifs

Fire and Water Dreaming, 2001

Size
350 × 180 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art Auction, Sydney, 23 November 2004, Lot 47

Provenance
Private Collection, South Australia. 

Price Realised
$20,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Cycle 2001 painting, with dense blue and cream concentric rectangular forms and flowing parallel lines covering a large horizontal canvas.

Tingari Cycle, 2001

Size
201 × 273 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Auction
Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 29 October 2023, Lot 151

Provenance
The Peter and Renate Nahum Collection, London.

Price Realised
$10,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Cycle 2001 painting, with five concentric rectangular motifs beside broad vertical fields of fine white, ochre and red parallel lines.

Tingari Cycle, 2001

Size
179 × 118 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art Auction, Sydney, 23 November 2004, Lot 172

Provenance
Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, cat. no. FG01202.RT. Sold with working photographs of the artist and painting.

Price Realised
$7,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Cycle 2001 painting, with red and white concentric circles connected by parallel lines across a black ground.

Tingari Cycle, 2001

Size
123 × 92 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Gibson’s, Australian & International Art including Property from the Rio Tinto Collection, Melbourne, 14 October 2019, Lot 108

Provenance
Red Desert Gallery, Queensland, cat. no. RDG235. Sold with a Red Desert Gallery certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$1,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 2002-2003

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Palkarulkulnga 2002 painting, featuring a monumental concentric oval of radiating orange, red, yellow, cream and white bands.

Palkarulkulnga, 2002

Size
122 × 152.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 18 March 2020, Lot 17

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Utopia Art Sydney; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised
$48,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Dreaming – Nyinaraguminya Swamp 2002 painting, with four large concentric rectangular forms in red, blue, black and cream.

Tingari Dreaming – Nyinaraguminya Swamp, 2002

Size
137 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Aboriginal Works of Art, Sydney, 27 November 2018, Lot 45

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, cat. no. RT0209107; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Ceremonies at Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) 2002 painting, with pale pink and cream lines forming concentric rectangles and large flowing circular patterns.

Tingari Ceremonies at Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay), 2002

Size
153 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24 July 2007, Lot 104

Provenance
The work bears the artist’s name, dimensions, Papunya Tula Artists catalogue no. RT0209178 and “Chapman” on the reverse.

Price Realised
$11,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Travels of the Tingari Ancestors 2002 painting, with a large central concentric circle surrounded by connected red, black and ochre circular and elongated motifs.

Travels of the Tingari Ancestors, 2002

Size
125 × 96.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 23 June 2020, Lot 9

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, cat. no. RT0206074; Des Rogers Art Dealer, Victoria; Aranda Art, Victoria; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Water Dreaming 2002 painting, with dense white vertical lines over a red and black ground crossed by broad curving white bands

Water Dreaming, 2002

Size
173 × 122 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Bonhams & Goodman, Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 17 November 2004, Lot 18

Provenance
Peter Van Groesen, Adelaide; Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari 2002 painting, with dense ochre and dark parallel lines bending around a central four-pointed geometric form and smaller corner motifs.

Tingari, 2002

Size
183 × 153.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Menzies, Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 25 March 2010, Lot 147

Provenance
Kimberley Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Dreaming 2002 painting, with dense yellow and black parallel lines bending into interlocking angular and curving geometric forms.

Tingari Dreaming, 2002

Size
150 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Stanley & Co., Fine Australian, Aboriginal & International Art, Sydney, 24 October 2004, Lot 70

Provenance
Australian Dreamtime Creations; Private Collection, Melbourne. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$5,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Moon Dreaming 2003 painting, featuring a large circular design of concentric black, white, blue and ochre rings radiating from a central ochre disc.

Moon Dreaming, 2003

Size
122 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 120

Provenance
Muk Muk Aboriginal Art, cat. no. A2300; Private Collection, Victoria. Sold with original source documentation and copies of photographs of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$9,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 2004-2006

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Dreaming 2004 painting, with vertical bands of fine red, white, yellow and ochre lines alternating with rows of concentric rectangular motifs

Tingari Dreaming, 2004

Size
200 × 300 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Indigenous Fine Art Auction – The Rod Menzies Estate, Indigenous Art Collection Part II, Sydney, 5 March 2024, Lot 52

Provenance
Commissioned by Ladner Fell Gallery, Victoria; Private Collection, Victoria; Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, May 2006, Lot 204; Menzies Estate Collection, Victoria. Accompanied by a copy of the Ladner Fell Gallery certificate and six working photographs.

Price Realised
$18,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari – Fire Story 2004 painting, with dense vertical white lines, sweeping black bands and four concentric geometric motifs along the left edge.

Tingari – Fire Story, 2004

Size
183 × 122 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 22 November 2006, Lot 176

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

Price Realised
$17,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Dreaming 2004 painting, with vertical bands of fine yellow, white and dark lines alternating with columns of repeated concentric rectangular motifs

Tingari Dreaming, 2004

Size
300 × 200 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 30 May 2006, Lot 204

Provenance
Commissioned by the artist for Ladner Fell Gallery in 2004; Private Collection, Melbourne. Sold with photographs of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$13,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Rain Dreaming 2004 painting, with vivid pink parallel lines bending and interlocking into large flowing geometric forms against a black ground.

Rain Dreaming, 2004

Size
108 × 128 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Auction
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Indigenous Art, Sydney, 15 July 2026, Lot 9089

Provenance
Zappers Aboriginal Art certificate of authenticity, cat. no. 21069.

Price Realised
$2,800 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Bush Fire Dreaming and Tingari Cycle 2005 painting, with vivid red, pink and ochre linear fields surrounding a central column of concentric rectangular motifs.

Bush Fire Dreaming and Tingari Cycle, 2005

Size
301 × 197 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Philips Auctions Australia, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 18 September 2011, Lot 14

Provenance
Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and photographic documentation. The source records a 2005 purchase price of $28,000.

Price Realised
$11,500 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Men's Ceremony 2005 painted beanwood shield, with a central concentric circle and elongated white and red ochre ceremonial designs above and below.

Men’s Ceremony, 2005

Size
74 cm high

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on 1950s beanwood shield

Auction
Newstead Art Auctions, Fine Aboriginal Art Auction, Sydney, 17 August 2025, Lot 36

Provenance
The Blythman Collection, NSW.

Exhibited
Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, 2021.

Price Realised
$2,600 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari at Watanuma 2006 painting, with intricate grey parallel lines forming interlocking angular, curving and maze-like patterns across a pale ground.

Tingari at Watanuma, 2006

Size
242.5 × 181 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Aboriginal Art from the Luczo Family Collection, USA, Melbourne, 19 October 2016, Lot 32

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in 2006; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; AP Bond Gallery, Adelaide; The Luczo Family Collection, USA.

Price Realised
$42,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Full Moon 2006 painting, with a monumental central circle of concentric red, white, blue and grey bands surrounded by smaller geometric motifs.

Full Moon, 2006

Size
205 × 241 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Lawson~Menzies, Australian Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14 November 2007, Lot 47

Provenance
Private Collection, Northern Territory. Sold with photographs of the artist creating the work.

Price Realised
$22,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari c. 2006 painting, with repeated concentric rectangular forms in white, dark red and black arranged across the linen.

Tingari, c.2006

Size
118 × 90 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Newstead Art Auctions, Fine Aboriginal Art Auction, Sydney, 17 August 2025, Lot 41

Provenance
Muk Muk Fine Art, Alice Springs, NT; Private Collection, NSW.

Price Realised
$3,200 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari 2006 painting, with fifteen concentric circular motifs connected by cream parallel lines across a red ochre ground.

Tingari, 2006

Size
92 × 122 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Leonard Joel, Fine Art & Photographic Auction, Melbourne, 17 June 2013, Lot 36

Provenance
Grass Tree Gallery, WA, cat. no. RT0406T6. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and four documentary photographs.

Price Realised
$700 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa values 2007-2011

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari 2007 painting, with dense vertical red lines surrounding a long horizontal black form on a black ground.

Tingari, 2007

Size
181 × 119 cm

Medium
Acrylic on Belgian linen

Auction
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Art | Australian, Aboriginal & International, Sydney, 19 September 2022, Lot 6147

Provenance
Grass Tree Gallery, Western Australia; certificate of authenticity RT091GTG. Accompanied by fourteen work-in-progress photographs and a photograph of the artist with the completed work.

Price Realised

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Tingari Cycle 2007 painting, with two large concentric circular forms in red, blue, grey, white and black surrounded by flowing parallel lines.

Tingari Cycle, 2007

Size
140.5 × 229 cm

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Auction
Gibson’s, Australian & International Art, Melbourne, 19 October 2025, Lot 190

Provenance
Muk Muk Aboriginal Art, Alice Springs; Art Index, Sydney; Private Collection, Melbourne.

Price Realised

$4,000 AUD
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Fire Dreaming 2007 painting, with dense vertical red lines interrupted by two long horizontal black bands across a black ground.

Fire Dreaming, 2007

Size
179 × 118 cm

Medium
Acrylic on linen

Auction
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers, Indigenous Art, Sydney, 15 July 2026, Lot 9122

Provenance
Grass Tree Gallery, Albany, certificate of authenticity cat. no. RT098GTG; Private Collection, Western Australia.

Price Realised
$2,400 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Ngarru 2008 painting, with dense red ochre parallel lines bending and converging into intricate geometric and maze-like forms across a cream ground.

Ngarru, 2008

Size
183 × 244 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Sotheby’s, Aboriginal Art, New York, 25 May 2022, Lot 89

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Private Collection, Melbourne; D’Lan Contemporary, Melbourne; The Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield Collection, New York.

Price Realised
$180,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Water Dreaming 2008 painting, with orange parallel lines flowing from a large elongated geometric form into dense maze-like patterns on a white ground.

Water Dreaming, 2008

Size
120 × 91 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Auction
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art), Indigenous Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 11 October 2022, Lot 30

Provenance
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, cat. no. RT0805034; Private Collection, South Australia. Accompanied by a Papunya Tula Artists certificate of authenticity.

Price Realised
$15,000 AUD

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Walungurru 2011 painting, with dense yellow and black parallel lines bending and interlocking into large flowing geometric form

Walungurru, 2011

Size
121 × 90.5 cm

Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Auction
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2024, Lot 41

Provenance
Painted at Kintore in 2011; Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs; Harvey Art Projects, Ketchum, Idaho; The Luczo Family Collection, USA; Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 19 October 2016, Lot 43; Private Collection, Victoria.

Price Realised
$16,000 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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