# Lorna Fencer Napurrula artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:00:16.900Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints, Mixed media

## About Lorna Fencer Napurrula

Lorna Fencer Napurrula was an Australian Aboriginal artist and painter, also catalogued by authority records as Yulyurlu Lorna Napurrurla Fencer and Lorna Naparrula Fencer. Public identity sources agree that she died in 2006 but disagree on her birth year: VIAF displays 1923, while Wikidata reports 1925. Titles associated with her authority record include Mukaki (Bush plum), Warna Jukurrpa (Snake Dreaming), Yam Tjukurrpa, Yarla mau yapa, and Yumurrpa Dreaming Story. These titles and spelling variants are useful entity-matching signals because inconsistent cataloguing can fragment auction results. Collectors principally encounter her through painting and broader fine-art auction catalogues, with Appraisily currently matching records dated from 2004 through 2025. The available sources are stronger on authority control and auction indexing than on a complete museum biography. Movement labels, exact life dates, community associations, and detailed career periods should therefore remain open until supported by further institutional documentation.

## Common works and media

Painting is the clearest supported work type. Authority records associate the artist with titles referring to Bush plum, Snake Dreaming, Yam Tjukurrpa, Yarla mau yapa, and the Yumurrpa Dreaming Story. Appraisily's broader auction taxonomy also places matched records in works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Because the source page describes category concentration as broad or sparse, those secondary classifications should be treated as search and comparison buckets until the medium, authorship, and attribution of each lot are confirmed.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, begin with like-for-like public auction records rather than a single overall average. Appraisily reports matched records from 2004 through 2025 and an observed priced range of $140 to $9,000, but its own caveats note incomplete feeds, private sales, fees, and attribution changes. Compare works by medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, inscriptions or signatures, provenance, exhibition or catalogue history, and attribution confidence. Edition information matters when an object is a print or another multiple. Work titles, Dreaming subjects, and artist-name spellings should also be checked carefully because variant cataloguing can affect record matching. These factors support an appraisal but do not constitute a price forecast; authentication, condition, and genuinely comparable recent sales can materially change the conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60193919
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/125148389256810711041/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lorna-fencer-napurrula/