# Mawalan Marika - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T15:16:14.867Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 27
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2005-07-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-03
- Median realised price: $2,880
- Price range: $420 to $42,800

## Market Takeaway
Mawalan Marika has 27 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,880. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 7 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 \($2,880\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,000 to $25,200\) 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: 20% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 40% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 40% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $3,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-03
- Days since latest sale: 149
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 8 lots
- Leonard Joel: 6 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 2 lots
- Gibson's: 2 lots
- Davidson Auctions: 1 lots
- McKenzies Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Mossgreen Auctions: 1 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Smith & Singer: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-03 | Mawalan Marika \(circa 1908\-1967\) Mururuma Story \(Djangkawu\), 1960s | Bonhams | A$22,000
2. 2025-12-02 | Mawalan Marika \(circa 1908\-1967\) Nativity Scene, c.1964 | Bonhams | N/A
3. 2025-12-02 | Mawalan Marika \(circa 1908\-1967\) Untitled, 1960 | Bonhams | A$1,000
4. 2025-10-21 | MAWALAN MARIKA \(c.1908\-1967\) \(Language group: Rirratjingu\) Djunkowa \(Djang'kawa\) Ceremony Yurlunggurr's \(Yulengor\) Sacred Waterhole.. | Leonard Joel | A$15,000
5. 2025-08-12 | MAWALAN MARIKA \(1908\-1967\), Untitled | Gibson's | A$2,200
6. 2025-06-24 | MAWALAN MARIKA \(1908\-1967\) \(Language group: Rirratjingu\) Djan'Kawu at Yalangbara c.1961 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 11.. | Leonard Joel | N/A
7. 2025-05-17 | MARIKA Mawalan \(1908\-1967\), 'Buffalo Hunt,' 1958., Natural Earth Pigments on Eucalyptus Bark, 26.5x47cm | Davidson Auctions | A$3,000
8. 2024-10-22 | MAWALAN MARIKA \(1908\-1967\) \(Language group: Rirratjingu\) Djan'Kawu at Yalangbara c.1961 natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 11... | Leonard Joel | N/A
9. 2023-09-05 | MAWALAN MARIKA 1908\-1967 | McKenzies Auctioneers | A$1,000
10. 2021-04-18 | MARIKA MAWALAN \(1908\-1967\) Untitled \- Fish 1966 | Gibson's | N/A
11. 2021-03-17 | MAWALAN MARIKA, SYDNEY, c.1962 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$37,000
12. 2018-11-01 | MAWALAN MARIKA \(1908\-1967\) Three Female Snakes natural earth pigments on bark | Leonard Joel | A$650
13. 2018-07-30 | MAWALAN MARIKA \(1908\-1967\) Three Female Snakes natural earth pigments on bark | Leonard Joel | N/A
14. 2017-05-09 | MAWALAN MARIKA \(BORN CIRCA 1908\-1967\) | Mossgreen Auctions | N/A
15. 2015-12-02 | MAWALAN MARIKA, c.1908 – 1967, DJAN'KAWU AT YALANGBARA, c.1961, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
16. 2015-09-03 | MAWALAN MARIKA, UNTITLED, CIRCA 1963, NATURAL EARTH PIGMENTS ON BARK, 52 X 33 CM, , SOTHEBY'S JUNE 1996 LABEL VERSO | Leonard Joel | A$550
17. 2013-04-10 | Mawalan Marika \(c. 1908\-1967\) Untitled 1962 | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$420
18. 2010-07-26 | Mawalan Marika, circa 1908\-1967, THE MILKY WAY | Smith & Singer | N/A
19. 2008-10-20 | MAWALAN MARIKA , CIRCA 1908\-1967 DJANG'KAWU ANCESTORS Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark | Sotheby's | N/A
20. 2007-11-25 | MAWALAN MARIKA , CIRCA 1908\-1967 NATIVITY SCENE Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark | Sotheby's | A$25,200
21. 2006-10-31 | MAWALAN MARIKA | Sotheby's | A$2,880
22. 2006-07-31 | MAWALAN MARIKA 1908\-1967 | Sotheby's | N/A
23. 2006-07-31 | MAWALAN MARIKA 1908\-1967 | Sotheby's | N/A
24. 2005-11-15 | MAWALAN MARIKA 1908\-1967 | Sotheby's | A$1,800

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