# Narrit Jin Maymuru - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T13:41:03.032Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 40
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 2004-07-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-03
- Median realised price: $2,000
- Price range: $350 to $15,000

## Market Takeaway
Narrit Jin Maymuru has 40 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 6 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 \($2,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,080 to $3,600\) 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% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 76.7% (23 sales)
- $10,000\+: 3.3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $2,000
- 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
- Bonhams: 7 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Lawsons: 4 lots
- Bay East Auctions: 3 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Gibson's: 2 lots
- Leonard Joel: 2 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Vickers & Hoad: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-03 | Narritjin Maymuru \(circa 1914\-1982\) Macassan Pipe and Spear pipe: 75.0cm length, spear: 208.0cm height | Bonhams | A$1,000
2. 2025-12-02 | Narritjin Maymuru \(circa 1914\-1982\) Untitled, c.1953 | Bonhams | A$2,800
3. 2025-10-19 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU \(1916\-1981\), Gulwarrk \(Night Bird\) | Gibson's | A$850
4. 2025-08-27 | Narritjin Maymuru \(circa 1914\-1982\) Marrngu, the Possum, 1971 | Bonhams | A$2,000
5. 2025-06-24 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU, POSSUM'S STORY, c.1968 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$9,500
6. 2025-05-20 | Garritjpi | Sotheby's | N/A
7. 2024-03-26 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU, GUWAK, MARNGU AND BIYAY AT DJARRAKPI, C.1960 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$15,000
8. 2023-08-19 | Narritjin Maymuru \(1916\-81\) Gunyan, the Crab. Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark. Approx L86.5 x 44cm PROVENANCE Aboriginal and Oceanic Art, Sotheby’s, Sydney, 25/11/2007. Lot No. 121. Ex Coote Collection… | Vickers & Hoad | A$360
9. 2023-03-18 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU \(1916\-81\) GUNYAN, THE CRAB | Vickers & Hoad | N/A
10. 2023-01-30 | Narritjin Maymuru, , Djarrakpi circa 1974, Ochre on eucalyptus bark | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$425
11. 2022-10-16 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU \(1916\-1981\), Opossum Tree | Gibson's | A$2,800
12. 2022-07-28 | Narritjin Maymuru \(1916\-1981\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$2,600
13. 2022-07-28 | Narritjin Maymuru \(1916\-1981\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$4,000
14. 2022-06-16 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU \(c.1916\-1981\) Sacred Dead Tree Log Rangga 1980 natural earth pigments on bark | Leonard Joel | N/A
15. 2022-05-17 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU, MARRNGU, THE OPOSSUM, C.1964 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$900
16. 2022-04-11 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU \(c.1916\-1981\) Sacred Dead Tree Log Rangga 1980 natural earth pigments on bark | Leonard Joel | N/A
17. 2021-08-24 | Narritjin Maymuru \(circa 1914\-1982\) Guwak \(Night Bird\), c.1965 height: 42.5cm \(16 3/4in\). | Bonhams | A$2,500
18. 2020-09-14 | Narritjin Maymuru \(1922\-1982\) Three Early Bark Paintings of Ancestral Creatures Earth pigments on Eucalyptus bark | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$1,900
19. 2020-07-22 | Narritjin Maymuru \(circa 1914\-1982\) Marrnyu the Possum, 1966 | Bonhams | A$1,500
20. 2020-07-22 | Narritjin Maymuru \(circa 1914\-1982\) Untitled \(Blue Mud Bay\) | Bonhams | A$2,200
21. 2020-06-23 | Narritjin Maymuru \- Possums Climbing a Sacred Cashew Tree at Djarrakpi | Cooee Art | A$5,500
22. 2019-09-22 | Narritjin Maymuru \(1922\-1982\) Clan: Mangalili, Moiety: Yirritja NE Arnhem Land Gunyan the White Crab c.1960s Ochre on bark | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$350
23. 2019-05-21 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU, GUWAK, THE NIGHT BIRD, c.1963 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$5,500
24. 2015-12-02 | NARRITJIN MAYMURU, 1922 – 1981, MARRNGU, THE OPOSSUM, c.1964, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark | Deutscher and Hackett | A$1,200

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