# Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:09:14.452Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting

## About Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri is a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous Australian artist associated with Australia's Western Desert region. Authority records identify her as Australian and give her birth year as circa 1948, while the collected sources do not supply an exact birth date or reliable death information. Collectors most often encounter her through paintings and auction records indexed under her full name. VIAF also links her identity with the titles Swamp near Nyirrpi and Swamps west of Nyrripi, indicating a documented connection to swamp imagery around Nyirrpi. Her public identity record is comparatively compact: the source pack confirms the artist and her cultural and regional context but does not include a museum biography, artist foundation, or scholarly catalogue. Accordingly, this page treats broad labels cautiously and does not assign a formal art movement that the available sources do not explicitly establish.

## Common works and media

Paintings are the clearest supported work type. The auction index also uses broad categories for works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions, but it reports sparse or broad category concentration, so those labels should not be read as a definitive catalogue of the artist's output. Authority records connect her name with Swamp near Nyirrpi and Swamps west of Nyrripi; such location-linked subject information can help distinguish relevant comparables when supported by the individual work's documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public-auction index spans records dated 2008–2025, with 178 records and 92 priced results on the collected page. Those figures are useful for selecting comparables, but they do not by themselves establish a value for an individual work. Appraisal should compare medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, surface quality, signature or inscriptions, edition details where relevant, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, subject matter, and attribution confidence. Recent public sales should be matched as closely as possible, and reported prices may not be directly comparable when buyer's premiums or fees are handled differently. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not appear in the dataset.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16733164
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/188148389253610710847/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngoia_Pollard_Napaltjarri
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ngoia-pollard-napaltjarri/