# Wakartu Cory Surprise - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T22:01:03.929Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2004-10-12
- Latest auction date: 2024-11-12
- Median realised price: $2,400
- Price range: $800 to $8,000

## Market Takeaway
Wakartu Cory Surprise has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,400. 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 \($2,400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,800 to $4,560\) 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: 6.3% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 93.8% (15 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: $1,800
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-11-12
- Days since latest sale: 538
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Deutscher and Hackett: 8 lots
- Leonard Joel: 5 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 5 lots
- Art Leven \(formerly Cooee Art\): 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Lawsons: 1 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-12 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE, UNTITLED, 2007 | Art Leven \(formerly Cooee Art\) | A$4,000
2. 2024-09-12 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE, UNTITLED 2003, | Leonard Joel | A$1,800
3. 2024-03-26 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE, UNTITLED, 2010 | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
4. 2023-11-21 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE \(c.1929\-2011\) \(Language group: Walmajarri\) Pitil Jila 2009 synthetic polymer paint on linen 120 x 120cm | Leonard Joel | A$7,500
5. 2023-09-05 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE, MIMBI JILA, 2006 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$2,400
6. 2022-04-11 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE \(c.1929\-2011\) Mullawamullawa\-Jumu 2006 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$1,600
7. 2020-12-08 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE, UNTITLED, 2007 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$6,000
8. 2020-12-08 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE, PITILL JILA, 2004 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$5,500
9. 2020-10-18 | Cory Surprise Wakartu \(1929\-2011\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$3,360
10. 2020-05-19 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE, PALPALGARRA, 2007 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$8,000
11. 2020-05-19 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE, PITILL JILA, 2004 | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
12. 2020-03-09 | Cory Surprise Wakartu \(b.c.1929\) Wayampajarti Artlier artists acrylic on Arches Rives 250gsm | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$800
13. 2019-10-29 | Cory Surprise Wakartu \(1925\-2011\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$4,560
14. 2019-10-29 | Cory Surprise Wakartu \(1925\-2011\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$1,320
15. 2019-07-18 | Cory Surprise Wakartu \(1929 \- 2011\) \- Jilji 60 x 60cm \(stretched and ready to hang\) | Lawsons | N/A
16. 2019-06-25 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE, UNTITLED, 2004 | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
17. 2019-06-20 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE \(1929 \- 2011\) Pamarr acrylic on canvas | Leonard Joel | N/A
18. 2019-06-04 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE \(1929 \- 2011\) Pamarr acrylic on canvas | Leonard Joel | N/A
19. 2016-09-20 | Cory Surprise Wakartu \(1929\-2011\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$2,400
20. 2016-09-20 | Cory Surprise Wakartu \(1929\-2011\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$2,400
21. 2013-03-24 | Wakartu Cory Surprise \(circa 1929\-2011\) | Bonhams | N/A
22. 2011-05-18 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE \(UNTITLED\) 110.0 x 75.0 cm | Deutscher and Hackett | A$2,400
23. 2004-10-12 | WAKARTU CORY SURPRISE \(BORN 1929\) | Christie's | £2,151

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