# Otto Pareroultja artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/otto-pareroultja/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:43:51.795Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting

## About Otto Pareroultja

Otto Pareroultja (1914–1973) is identified by Wikidata and VIAF as an Australian Aboriginal painter. Library authority data also records the name forms Otto Parachultja and Parawiltja, which can help connect auction catalogues and collection records that use variant spellings. The available public source pack is strongest on identity rather than biography: it does not establish exact birth or death dates, training, named artistic movements, preferred subjects, or a dated career chronology. Collectors may encounter his name through public auction records, where Appraisily has matched numerous lots under broad categories headed by fine art and paintings. Because those categories can also contain works on paper, prints, mixed media, editions, or incorrectly matched records, each object should be assessed from its cataloguing, images, inscriptions, stated medium, dimensions, date, condition, and provenance rather than from the artist-name match alone.

## Common works and media

The source pack securely identifies Pareroultja as a painter, making paintings the best-supported work type. Appraisily's auction taxonomy also contains works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions, but the available evidence does not verify that every category represents securely attributed work by the artist. It supplies no reliable subject or series list. For an encountered object, record the stated medium, support, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, edition information where relevant, date, condition, provenance, and auction-house attribution.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with close comparables: works assigned to Otto Pareroultja that align in medium, size, date, condition, provenance, and attribution confidence. Signatures and inscriptions, restoration history, surface quality, exhibition or catalogue references, subject matter, and rarity may also affect comparability. Appraisily's public page presents inconsistent lot totals within the collected snapshot, so a headline median or observed range should not be treated as a complete valuation. Confirm whether prices include buyer's premium, distinguish priced from unpriced records, and review the underlying lot descriptions and images. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not appear in public auction data.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/25145243829174441305/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47907165
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/otto-pareroultja/