Gloria Petyarre: career timeline

Australian · 1938–2021 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 30 of 42 lots (73% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Gloria Petyarre: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1990s	11	8	$827Sign up	Acrylic
2000s	12	10	$2.2kSign up	Acrylic
2010s	6	6	$1.2kSign up	Acrylic

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1990s 11 works

Sold: 8 of 11
Median: $827Sign up
Average: $2kSign up
Typical size: 48 × 47.5 in (122 × 121 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (8), Other (3)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1), Flowers & still life (1)

1996 Bush Medicine Leaves,$499Sign up
1996 Bush Medicine Dreaming 1996$9.7kSign up
1997 Awelye for Arnkerrthe (Woman's Ceremony for Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming)$1.6kSign up
1998 Atnangkere Growth 1998Unsold
1999 Untitled$1.7kSign up
1999 Bush Medicine Leaves$552Sign up
1999 Bush Medicine Leaves$310Sign up
1999 Leaves on the Ground$1.1kSign up
1999 Mountain Devil Dreaming$486Sign up
1999 Alpite - Flowers 1999Unsold
1999 Aknangkere Growth 1999Unsold

2000s 12 works

Sold: 10 of 12
Median: $2.2kSign up
Average: $2.5kSign up
Typical size: 57 × 47.5 in (145 × 121 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (9), Other (3)
Subjects: —

2001 Bush Medicine Dreaming$3.1kSign up
2002 Bush Medicine$747Sign up
2002 Leaves$2.9kSign up
2002 Bush Seeds 2002Unsold
2003 Leaf 2003Unsold
2003 Mountain Devil Dreaming 2003$2.8kSign up
2004 Bush Medicine Leaves$606Sign up · sold 2×
2006 Bush Leaves$1kSign up
2007 Bush Medicine Dreaming$6.4kSign up
2007 Bush Medicine Leaves 2007$4.2kSign up
2008 Bush Leaf Medicine Dreaming$1.3kSign up
2009 Bush Medicine Leaves$1.6kSign up

2010s 6 works

Sold: 6 of 6
Median: $1.2kSign up
Average: $1.3kSign up
Typical size: 58 × 41.5 in (147 × 105 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (4), Other (2)
Subjects: —

Creation date not recorded

11 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $1.4kSign up
Average: $1.4kSign up
Typical size: 48 × 59 in (122 × 150 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2018 Untitled$1.4kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 10 works

Sold: 10 of 10
Median: $490Sign up
Average: $778Sign up
Typical size: 36.5 × 23 in (93 × 58 cm)
Mediums: Acrylic (10)
Subjects: —

sold 2020 Bush Medicine Leaves$441Sign up
sold 2021 Untitled$809Sign up
sold 2021 Bush Medicine Leaves$735Sign up
sold 2021 Mountain Devil$523Sign up
sold 2021 Mountain Devil Dreaming,' 199$411Sign up
sold 2022 Abawglope$2.4kSign up

Show 4 more (2020s)

sold 2024 Bush Medicine Leaves$1.2kSign up
sold 2025 Bush Medicine Leaves$457Sign up
sold 2025 Bush Medicine Leaves$449Sign up · sold 2×
sold 2026 Leaves$297Sign up

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Gloria Petyarre auction results →