Kathleen Petyarre Auction Prices and Value Guide

Kathleen Petyarre auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 817 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Kathleen Petyarre auction prices: quick answer

Kathleen Petyarre auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Kathleen Petyarre
Source records
817
Market update
2026-02-16

Kathleen Petyarre market snapshot

Kathleen Petyarre shows very deep auction liquidity with 597 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 11 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-05.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (35.1% · 111 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (59.2% · 187 sales)
  • $10,000+ (5.7% · 18 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$3,200
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
11
Median shift vs prior year
+33.3%
Latest recorded sale
2026-02-05

Artist context

About Kathleen Petyarre

Kathleen Petyarre portrait
Ajasonk · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Born

1940

Died

2018

Nationality

Australian, Indigenous Australian

Also known as

Kweyetwemp Petyarre

Kathleen Petyarre was an Indigenous Australian painter, born around 1940 and active in the Aboriginal art context associated with the Utopia region near Alice Springs. Public authority records identify her as an Australian artist who died in 2018. Her paintings refer to country and Dreamings, placing cultural and geographic relationships at the center of her practice. Collectors most often encounter Petyarre through paintings offered in Aboriginal and Indigenous Australian art contexts. Commentary has sometimes compared the visual impact of her work with Western abstraction, but those comparisons should not replace the cultural framework from which the paintings emerged. Her identity is represented across Wikidata, VIAF, the Library of Congress, ISNI, RKD, and the British Museum collection authority system. The available source pack establishes her identity and broad artistic context, although it provides limited institution-grade detail about individual works, chronology, techniques, and named series.

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Common works and media

Collectors and appraisers are most likely to encounter Kathleen Petyarre through paintings classified within Australian Aboriginal or Indigenous Australian art. The available sources connect her imagery with country and Dreamings. This source pack does not establish a reliable inventory of particular materials, named series, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters, so those categories should be verified from the individual object and its documentation rather than inferred from the artist’s name.

Market and appraisal context

Kathleen Petyarre’s market should be assessed work by work rather than through a general price expectation. Relevant evidence includes the type and medium of the work, its subject and relationship to the artist’s country and Dreamings, and comparable public auction records with documented sale dates and realized prices. Dimensions, date, condition, provenance, attribution, and sale context may also matter in an appraisal, but the collected sources do not provide enough evidence to characterize their effect specifically for this artist. Appraisily’s auction directory contains a substantial record signal for Petyarre, yet the public market page was unavailable during collection, so no price trend, rarity claim, or record result is asserted here.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Subject matter and its relationship to country and Dreamings
  2. Comparable public auction records, sale dates, and realized prices when available
  3. Work type and medium

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected market source was rate-limited, so this profile does not support price-trend, record-price, rarity, provenance, condition, or attribution claims.
  • Auction results should be compared by work type, subject, dimensions, date, and sale context where those details are documented; no price prediction is implied.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Kathleen Petyarre

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Kathleen Petyarre worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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