OA32 – Gloria Petyarre (1942-2021) “Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming”

Unsigned and unframed (Aboriginal artists do not sign and their work is not framed as a rule).Auction invoice attached.

Petuarre was one of Australia's most successful and significant female artists. Her depiction of the Kurrajong bush medicine leaves, with her layered, free-flowing, swirling brushstrokes that scatter across the canvas, became her iconic motif. Her career took off when she won the Wynne Prize in 1999. Gloria became the first Indigenous Australian artist ever to win a major art prize at the Gallery of New South Wales. The average price over the last three years is $3,582 and a top price of $78,000.