# Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T01:51:14.814Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 24
- First auction date: 2004-07-26
- Latest auction date: 2024-05-21
- Median realised price: $9,600
- Price range: $600 to $216,000

## Market Takeaway
Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,600. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($9,600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($5,040 to $25,175\) 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: 4.2% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 45.8% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 50% (12 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $8,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-05-21
- Days since latest sale: 723
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 16 lots
- Leonard Joel: 4 lots
- Bay East Auctions: 2 lots
- Potomack Company: 2 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Cooee Art: 1 lots
- GFL Fine Art: 1 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-05-21 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA \- BUSH POTATO DREAMING 1976 \- SYNTHETIC POLYMER PAINT ON CANVAS | GFL Fine Art | A$8,000
2. 2023-11-21 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA \(c.1926\-1989\) \(Language group: Anmatyerre, Warlpiri and Arrernte\) Sandhill Dancing Dreaming \- Version 1... | Leonard Joel | A$30,000
3. 2022-04-11 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA \(1926\-1989\) Warlukurlangu, Site of the Blue Tongue Lizard Man's Fire c.1978 synthetic polymer paint on c.. | Leonard Joel | A$3,000
4. 2022-04-11 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA \(1926\-1989\) Yala \(Wild Potato\) Dreaming at Warlukurlangu 1987 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$4,400
5. 2022-04-11 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA \(1926\-1989\) Sweet Potato \(Yala\) Dreaming 1979 synthetic polymer paint on linen | Leonard Joel | A$4,800
6. 2021-08-25 | Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa \(1926\-1989\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
7. 2020-09-19 | Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa \(Aboriginal, circa 1926–1989\), Rainbow Water Dreaming | Leland Little Auctions | $9,000
8. 2020-05-26 | Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa \(1920\-1989\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$9,600
9. 2019-04-13 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA \(AUSTRALIAN, CIRCA 1920\-1989\) KALI PINATJARRA \- DECORATED BOOMERANG Synthetic polymer on board: 29 1/2 i... | Potomack Company | N/A
10. 2019-04-13 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA \(AUSTRALIAN, CIRCA 1920\-1989\) YALA AT YARIBILONGU Synthetic polymer on board: 10 x 15 in. | Potomack Company | $600
11. 2018-11-27 | Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa \(1920\-1989\) Rainbow Storm Dreaming 1971 | Cooee Art | A$12,000
12. 2012-10-07 | Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa \(1920\-1989\) \(Untitled\) acrylic on canvas board | Bay East Auctions | N/A
13. 2012-05-27 | Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa \(1920\-1989\) \(Untitled\) acrylic on canvas board | Bay East Auctions | N/A
14. 2012-05-20 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA, | Mossgreen Auctions | A$12,200
15. 2010-07-26 | Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa, circa 1926\-1989, WILD ORANGE DREAMING | Smith & Singer | A$45,600
16. 2008-10-20 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA , CIRCA 1926\-1989 CHILDREN'S WATER DREAMING Synthetic polymer paint/powder paint on composition board | Sotheby's | A$26,400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kaapa-mbitjana-tjampitjinpa-circa-1926-1989-children-s-water-dreaming-synthetic-polymer-paint-powder-paint-on-composition-board-96-c-lst2s9iw3c
17. 2008-10-20 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA , CIRCA 1926\-1989 CHILDREN'S STORY Synthetic polymer paint / powder paint on composition board | Sotheby's | A$30,000
18. 2008-10-20 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA , CIRCA 1926\-1989 WILD ORANGE DREAMING Natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on composition board | Sotheby's | N/A
19. 2007-07-24 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA , MEDICINE PAINTING 1971 | Sotheby's | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kaapa-mbitjana-tjampitjinpa-medicine-painting-1971-44-c-29r91wu1s0
20. 2006-10-31 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA | Sotheby's | A$13,200
21. 2006-10-31 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA | Sotheby's | A$11,400
22. 2006-10-31 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA | Sotheby's | A$9,000
23. 2006-07-31 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA 1920\-1989 | Sotheby's | A$36,000
24. 2006-07-31 | KAAPA MBITJANA TJAMPITJINPA 1920\-1989 | Sotheby's | A$216,000

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