# Jean Baptiste Apuatimi - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T03:46:56.721Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 29
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2004-10-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-16
- Median realised price: $1,600
- Price range: $380 to $10,200

## Market Takeaway
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi has 29 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,600. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($960 to $3,585\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 28.6% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 66.7% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4.8% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $1,800
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-16
- Days since latest sale: 224
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Leonard Joel: 12 lots
- Gibson's: 5 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 4 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 3 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Lawson~Menzies: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-16 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\) Male Crocodile 2003 acrylic on canvas 115 x 53cm | Leonard Joel | A$1,800
2. 2025-06-24 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI, NGUIU BATHURST ISLAND, 2012 | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
3. 2023-11-21 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\) \(Language Group: Tiwi\) Dilly Bags 2004 natural ochre on paper 77 x 57cm | Leonard Joel | A$1,900
4. 2023-08-28 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\) \(Language group: Tiwi\) Ngulu Bathurst Island 2002 natural ochres on canvas 120 x 100cm | Leonard Joel | N/A
5. 2023-05-08 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\), Jirtaka \(Sawfish\), Series: Custodians: Country and Culture 2009 | Gibson's | A$380
6. 2023-05-08 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\), Untitled 2006 | Gibson's | A$1,900
7. 2023-05-08 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\), Untitled 2002 | Gibson's | A$1,400
8. 2023-05-08 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\), Untitled 2002 | Gibson's | A$1,200
9. 2023-05-08 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\), Untitled 2004 | Gibson's | A$750
10. 2023-03-22 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI, KULAMA\-YAM, 2000 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$7,000
11. 2022-11-03 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI, POKUMANI POLES. NATURAL EARTH PIGMENT ON CANVAS, 73.5 X 55CM INSCRIBED VERSO WITH ARTISTS NAME AND TIWI DE... | Leonard Joel | N/A
12. 2022-08-22 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(c.1940\-2013\) \(Tiwi Langauge Group\) Turtini, Nguiu Bathurst Island natural ochres on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$3,600
13. 2022-08-11 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI, UNTITLED 1999, OCHRE ON CANVAS, 80 X 80CM INSCRIBED VERSO WITH ARTIST'S NAME AND TIWI DESIGNS CAT. NO. P\-1... | Leonard Joel | A$4,400
14. 2022-07-28 | Jean Baptiste Apuatimi \(1940\-2013\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
15. 2022-03-30 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI, KULAMA, 2001 | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
16. 2020-11-25 | Jean Baptiste Apuatimi \(1940\-2013\) Pukumani Poles, 2001 | Bonhams | A$4,500
17. 2020-05-26 | Jean Baptiste Apuatimi \(1940\-2013\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$10,200
18. 2020-05-14 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\) Untitled acrylic and natural earth pigments on paper | Leonard Joel | A$700
19. 2020-04-02 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\) Untitled 1998 natural ochres on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$850
20. 2020-03-17 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\) Untitled acrylic and natural earth pigments on paper | Leonard Joel | N/A
21. 2020-03-17 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\) Untitled 1998 natural ochres on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$2,000
22. 2020-03-17 | JEAN BAPTISTE APUATIMI \(1940\-2013\) Untitled 1998 natural ochres on canvas | Leonard Joel | N/A
23. 2019-04-04 | Jean Baptiste Apuatimi \(1940 \- 2013\) \- Open Basket, 2012 natural pigments on linen | Lawsons | A$1,600
24. 2014-04-02 | Jean Baptiste Apuatimi \(1940\-2013\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$1,500

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