# Rex Battarbee - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T19:12:30.861Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2007-06-14
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-24
- Median realised price: $1,300
- Price range: $15 to $9,500

## Market Takeaway
Rex Battarbee has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,300. 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 \($1,300\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $6,500\) 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: 44.4% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 55.6% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $70
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-24
- Days since latest sale: 403
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Leonard Joel: 8 lots
- Lawsons: 6 lots
- Colville Auctions: 4 lots
- Sydney Rare Book Auctions: 4 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 2 lots
- Raffan Kelaher & Thomas: 2 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Davidson Auctions: 1 lots
- GFL Fine Art: 1 lots
- Gibson's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-24 | Rex Battarbee \- Artist and Founder of the Aboriginal Art Movement in Central Australia | Davidson Auctions | A$70
2. 2024-10-27 | REX BATTARBEE \(1893\-1973\), Sandhill Rhythm 1962 | Gibson's | A$3,800
3. 2024-02-15 | REX BATTARBEE \(1893 \- 1973\) Mt Sonder, Alice Springs, 1935 watercolour laid on masonite 26.5 x 49.5 cm \(frame: 36 x 58 x 4 cm\) signe... | Lawsons | N/A
4. 2023-11-19 | REX BATTARBEE \(1893\-1973\), Waterhole, Central Australia, 1939, watercolour, signed lower right "Rex Battarbee, 1939", 38.5 x 56.5cm, 59 x 75cm overall. PROVENANCE: Roy Johnston Collection, Melbourne | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | A$9,500
5. 2023-11-16 | REX BATTARBEE \(1893 \- 1973\) Mt Sonder, Alice Springs, 1935 watercolour laid on masonite 26.5 x 49.5 cm \(frame: 36 x 58 x 4 cm\) signe... | Lawsons | N/A
6. 2022-12-01 | REX BATTARBEE, LANDSCAPE 1928, WATERCOLOUR ON CARD, SIGNED AND DATED LOWER LEFT, 35 X 53CM, FRAME: 47 X 64CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
7. 2022-11-29 | REX BATTARBEE \- MACDONNELL RANGES \- Watercolour | GFL Fine Art | A$7,000
8. 2022-11-04 | SIGNED REX BATTARBEE | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$80
9. 2022-10-18 | REX BATTARBEE, CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE, 1934 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$6,500
10. 2022-10-18 | REX BATTARBEE, GHOST GUM, 1967 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$6,500
11. 2022-09-13 | Rex Battarbee \(1893\-1973\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2022-04-28 | REX BATTARBEE \(1893 \- 1973\) Mount Sonder, Alice Springs 1935 watercolour 26.5 x 49.5 cm \(frame: 36 x 59 x 4 cm\) signed and dated low... | Lawsons | N/A
13. 2021-11-12 | SIGNED BATTARBEE | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$90
14. 2021-09-03 | SIGNED BATTARBEE | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$200
15. 2021-06-10 | 2 Vols: Rex Battarbee "Modern Australian Aboriginal Art" & Tim Bonyhady "The Colonial Image" | Lawsons | A$15
16. 2021-02-22 | Rex Battarbee \(1893\-1973\) Australia \- Orminston Gorge | Colville Auctions | A$7,500
17. 2018-09-13 | Rex Battarbee \(1893 \- 1973\) \- Untitled, 1948 37 x 44.5cm | Lawsons | A$1,500
18. 2017-12-09 | Rex Battarbee | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | N/A
19. 2017-09-28 | Rex Battarbee \(1893 \- 1969\) \- Palm Gorge, Nothern Territory, 1936 55.5 x 27cm | Lawsons | A$1,300
20. 2017-08-28 | REX BATTARBEE | Scammells Auctions | N/A
21. 2016-09-20 | Rex Battarbee \(1893\-1973\) \- Modern Australian Aboriginal Art | Colville Auctions | A$600
22. 2016-09-20 | Rex Battarbee \(1893\-1973\) \- Portrait of Willie Tjimba of the Pitjentjara Tribe | Colville Auctions | N/A
23. 2016-09-20 | Rex Battarbee \(1893\-1973\) \- On the Way to Arltunga | Colville Auctions | A$1,350
24. 2015-12-01 | REX BATTARBEE \(1893\-1969\) 'OUTBACK MOUNTAINS Watercolour. Signed lower right. 24 x 33cm. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$240

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