# Kathleen Petyarre artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/kathleen-petyarre/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T21:59:23.738Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 2018-11-24
- Nationality: Australian, Indigenous Australian
- Movements: Australian Aboriginal art
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Kathleen Petyarre](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Gloria%2C_Violet_and_Kathleen_Pitjara_%28Petyarre%29_with_Adam_Knight.jpg)
Ajasonk · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gloria,_Violet_and_Kathleen_Pitjara_(Petyarre)_with_Adam_Knight.jpg

## About Kathleen 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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1736286
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/62614266/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001012047
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG190925
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Petyarre
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Petyarre
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Petyarre
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/kathleen-petyarre/