# Wenten Rubuntja - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T12:20:21.286Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 42
- Lots with prices: 24
- First auction date: 2007-09-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-30
- Median realised price: $420
- Price range: $80 to $4,000

## Market Takeaway
Wenten Rubuntja shows developing auction liquidity with 42 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $420. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-30.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($420\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $260 and $900.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 79.2% (19 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 20.8% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 10
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-30
- Days since latest sale: 80
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Lawsons: 9 lots
- Leonard Joel: 8 lots
- Colville Auctions: 7 lots
- Albion Antique Auction Centre: 5 lots
- Ozbid Auctions: 5 lots
- Leski Auctions Pty Ltd: 2 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Bargain Hunt Auctions: 1 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 1 lots
- Gibson's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-30 | Wenten Rubuntja \(Australian, 1926\-2005\) Central Australian Landscape Watercolor | Hoch LTD. | N/A
2. 2024-05-16 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1923\-2005 \) ARRERNTE LAW MAN, PAPUNYA DOT STYLE PAINTING, SYNTHETIC POLYMER ON CANVAS, APPROX. 71CM BY 127CM, ACQUIRED DIRECTLY FROM THE ARTIST C.2003, HELD PRIVATELY THEREAFTER | Albion Antique Auction Centre | A$500
3. 2024-05-16 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1923\-2005 \) ARRERNTE LAW MAN, PAPUNYA DOT STYLE PAINTING, SYNTHETIC POLYMER ON CANVAS, SIGNED TO REVERSE, APPROX. 48CM BY 128CM, ACQUIRED DIRECTLY FROM THE ARTIST C.2003, HELD PRIVATELY THEREAFTER, | Albion Antique Auction Centre | A$450
4. 2024-04-24 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1923 \- 2005\) \- Sandstone Hills acrylic on canvas board 30.5 x 22.5 cm | Lawsons | A$500
5. 2024-04-11 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1923\-2005 \) ARRERNTE LAW MAN, PAPUNYA DOT STYLE PAINTING, SYNTHETIC POLYMER ON CANVAS, APPROX. 71CM BY 127CM, ACQUIRED DIRECTLY FROM THE ARTIST C.2003, HELD PRIVATELY THEREAFTER, | Albion Antique Auction Centre | N/A
6. 2024-04-11 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1923\-2005 \) ARRERNTE LAW MAN, PAPUNYA DOT STYLE PAINTING, SYNTHETIC POLYMER ON CANVAS, SIGNED TO REVERSE, APPROX. 48CM BY 128CM, ACQUIRED DIRECTLY FROM THE ARTIST C.2003, | Albion Antique Auction Centre | N/A
7. 2024-04-11 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1923\-2005 \) ARRERNTE LAW MAN, PAPUNYA DOT STYLE PAINTING, SYNTHETIC POLYMER ON CANVAS, SIGNED TO REVERSE, APPROX. 41CM BY 121CM, ACQUIRED DIRECTLY FROM THE ARTIST C.2003, | Albion Antique Auction Centre | A$350
8. 2024-04-10 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1923 \- 2005\) \- Sandstone Hills acrylic on canvas board 30.5 x 22.5 cm | Lawsons | N/A
9. 2024-03-20 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1923 \- 2005\) \- Sandstone Hills acrylic on canvas board 30.5 x 22.5 cm | Lawsons | N/A
10. 2024-03-03 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1926\-2005\), Central Australia | Gibson's | A$1,000
11. 2024-02-25 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1923 \- 2005\) \- Sandstone Hills acrylic on canvas board 30.5 x 22.5 cm | Lawsons | A$600
12. 2023-11-02 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA, CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE, WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, 35 X 24.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 58 X 46CM | Leonard Joel | A$300
13. 2023-05-28 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1926 \- 2005\), \(Central Australian Landscape\), watercolour on board, signed lower centre, 17 x 26cm. | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | A$80
14. 2023-05-28 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1926\-2005\), \(Hermannsburg School\), watercolour, signed lower centre "Wenten Rubuntja", 16 x 24cm, 31 x 39cm overall | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | A$220
15. 2022-12-15 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA, CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE, WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED LOWER CENTRE, 36 X 45CM, FRAME SIZE: 55.5 X 63CM | Leonard Joel | A$260
16. 2022-12-05 | Wenten Rubuntja \(1926 \-2005\) Australia \- \(Gum tree left vivid colours\) | Colville Auctions | A$1,500
17. 2022-12-05 | Wenten Rubuntja \(1926 \-2005\) Australia \- \(Gum tree left\) | Colville Auctions | N/A
18. 2022-12-05 | Wenten Rubuntja \(1926 \- 2005\) Australia \- \(Gum tree left, hills in background bright colours, water in front, path\) | Colville Auctions | N/A
19. 2022-12-05 | Wenten Rubuntja \(1926 \- 2005\) Australia \- \(Pink landscape, gum trees middle, water in front\) | Colville Auctions | N/A
20. 2022-11-03 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA, CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE, WATERCOLOUR, SIGNED LOWER CENTRE, 36 X 45CM, FRAME SIZE: 55.5 X 63CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
21. 2022-10-18 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA, UNTITLED | Deutscher and Hackett | A$2,800
22. 2022-04-11 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1926\-2005\) McDonnell Ranges 1981 watercolour on paper | Leonard Joel | A$2,000
23. 2022-04-11 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA \(1926\-2005\) Bicentenary Aboriginal Dreaming, Emu Dreaming 1987 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$4,000
24. 2022-02-10 | WENTEN RUBUNTJA, CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE, WATERCOLOUR, 21 X 52CM, FRAME SIZE: 39.5 X 70CM | Leonard Joel | A$420

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