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Aboriginal Art - Australian Indigenous Artists Ranked According to Highest Selling Price for a Single Artwork

16 March 2008

Aboriginal Art Market - Top Aboriginal Artists

Australian Indigenous Artists Ranked According to Highest Selling Price for a Single Artwork

Warning. This article contains the names and images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.

* These Australian Indigenous artists are ranked according to highest selling price for a single artwork, whether paintings or sculptures.

Rank

Name of Artist

Highest Sale

Price (Au$)

Title of Work

Year Sold

1

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

$2.4M

"Warlugulong"

2007

2

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

$1.056M

"Earth's Creation"

2007

3

Rover Thomas

$778,750

"All That Big Rain Coming Down Top Side"

2001

4

Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula

$486,500

"Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa"

2001

5

William McLintock Onus

(Lin Onus)

$396,000

"Water Lilies and Evening Reflections, Dingo Springs"

2006

6

Billy Stockman Japaltjarri

$201,500

"Wild Potato (Yala) Dreaming"

1998

7

Dennis Nona

$85,000

"Apu Kaz - Mother and Baby Dugong" - Bronze Sculpture

2007

8

Jack Britten

$82,750

"Purnu Lulu, tha Bungle Bungles"

2005

9

Minnie Pwerle

$78,000

"Awelye Atnwengerrp"

2007

10

John Mawurndjul

$78,000

"Ancestors at Milmilingkan C."

2007

11

Makiniti Napanangka

$72,000

"Lupulnga"

2006

12

Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri

$50,000

"Honey Art Story"

2007

13

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula

$47,700

"Straightening of the Spears at Ilyingaugau"

2002

14

Mick Namarari Japaltjarri

$38,160

"Marsupial Mouse Dreaming"

2002

15

Gloria Petyarre

$34,575

"Leaves"

2004

16

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa

$32,000

"Kaakutatiutja (Lake MacDonald)"

2007

17

Eunice Napangardi

$29,325

"Uparli Dreaming (Bush Banana)"

2000

18

Ada Bird Petyarre

$27,600

"Atnangkere (Awelye)"

1999

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* Disclaimer : This list of "Top Aboriginal Artists" is based on our own limited research. There has been no "cash for comment" involved in the publishing of this list at all and the ranking of the artists is subject to change at any time. The rankings and data are neither exhaustive nor authoritative.

The artists are ranked according to highest selling price [based on our own limited research] for a single artwork, whether paintings or sculptures.

Australia Gifts Online (aka Australia Gift Shop) provides no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the furnished data.

To visit the American Dollar [ US$ ] area of Australia Gift Shop, go to www.australiagift.net .

To visit the Australian Dollar [ AU$ ] area of Australia Gift Shop, go to www.australiagift.net/australia .

More of our blogs about the Aboriginal art market :

Australian Aboriginal Art: For Souvenir Hunters and Collectors

Australian Aboriginal Art : Appreciation of the Appreciated

Aboriginal Art - Australian Indigenous Artists Ranked According to Highest Selling Price for a Single Artwork

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