# Yinarupa Nangala artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:14:30.615Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian

## About Yinarupa Nangala

Yinarupa Nangala is identified by public authority records as an Australian Pintupi artist associated with Western Australia. Those records agree on her identity and cultural affiliation but disagree on her birth year: Wikidata gives 1955, while the National Library of Australia heading represented in VIAF says approximately 1961. That difference remains an identity-research question rather than a settled fact. The collected biography places her in relation to the Kiwirrkurra community and reports work in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, and National Gallery of Victoria. VIAF also associates her name with a work titled Kanaputa. Collectors may encounter Nangala through Australian Indigenous art sales and artist-name auction searches, including records matched to the variant Yinarupa Gibson Nangala. The available sources support her Pintupi identity and auction presence, but they do not establish a specific movement, recurring subject vocabulary, or documented working method.

## Common works and media

The collected source pack does not establish a definitive list of Nangala's usual media, subjects, or series. Appraisily's auction index groups matched records under broad categories including paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture or mixed media, and decorative art or editions, but these labels should be verified against individual lot descriptions before describing them as characteristic. VIAF identifies Kanaputa as a work associated with the artist. For appraisal purposes, record the object's actual support, materials, dimensions, inscriptions, condition, provenance, and subject before selecting comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with closely comparable public sales rather than the artist-wide headline range. Relevant comparisons should align in medium, dimensions, date, condition, subject, provenance, and attribution confidence. Signatures, inscriptions, restoration, exhibition history, catalogue references, and any edition information also require verification. Appraisily's matched auction data indicates a continuing public-market record, but the available category labels are broad and do not prove that every listed work type is characteristic of Nangala's practice. Auction results may omit private transactions and may differ in their treatment of fees or buyer premiums. A defensible valuation therefore depends on examining the individual object and comparing it with documented lots that are genuinely similar.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity conflicts, incomplete feeds, private sales, and attribution changes are retained as limitations rather than resolved by assumption.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86742449
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/376148389233410710592/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/yinarupa-nangala/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinarupa_Nangala