# Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:18:13.770Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 2015-02-11
- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting, Abstract-like painting

## About Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (approximately 1924–2015) was an Aboriginal Australian painter whose name is often shortened to Sally Gabori in authority and auction records. She began painting at approximately 81 years of age, developing an abstract-like visual language connected with her Country on the southern side of Bentinck Island in Queensland. The collected sources do not assign her securely to a conventional Western art movement; the more useful context is her identity as an Aboriginal Australian artist and the relationship between painting, place, and Country. Her unusually late start did not prevent her work from developing a substantial public-auction presence. Collectors may encounter records under either her full name or Sally Gabori, making careful entity matching important. Her documented practice is centered on painting, while broader auction-category labels should be verified against the medium and cataloguing of each individual lot.

## Common works and media

Paintings are the clearest documented work type in the collected identity sources, including works described as abstract-like representations of the artist's Country. Appraisily's auction index also groups matched records under works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Because the index describes its category concentration as broad or sparse, those secondary labels should be checked against each auction lot rather than treated as a definitive catalogue of Gabori's established media.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records indicate an active market for works attributed to Sally Gabori, but appraisal should begin with closely comparable objects rather than a single artist-wide price. Relevant comparisons should align in medium, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, subject, and attribution confidence. Surface quality, restoration, signatures or inscriptions, exhibition history, and catalogue references may also affect how a work is assessed. Reported auction prices can use different conventions for buyer premiums and fees, while private sales and incomplete feeds may be absent. Appraisily's current category classification is broad or sparse, so each lot's cataloguing and images should be reviewed before drawing conclusions about rarity or value.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24735218
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500294479
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/130101706/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/264331435
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Gabori
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mirdidingkingathi-juwarnda-sally-gabori/