Works in the database
298
Works with images
253
Works with multiple sales
29

Past Sales

Useless, 1974 (Her father's nickname for her was useless), 1974
Adventure Series #3, 2004
Something More #2 1989

Sales by Medium

Photographs
Sold 62 works for
$2,631,815
Prints & Graphics
Sold 96 works for
$743,785
Paintings
Sold 2 works for
$10,940

Where to buy or sell art works by Tracey Moffatt

Auction Houses

Deutscher and Hackett
Sold 23 works for
$759,146
Christies
Sold 19 works for
$618,967
Deutscher~Menzies
Sold 22 works for
$611,960

Born in Brisbane in 1960, Tracey Moffatt graduated in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art in 1982 before moving to Sydney. Moffatt, as a filmmaker as well as photographer, has held around 100 solo exhibitions of her work in Europe, the United States and Australia. Her films, including ‘Nightcries - A Rural Tragedy’, 1990, and ‘Bedevil’, 1993, have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York and the National Centre for Photography in Paris. In 2017 she represented Australia at the 57th Venice Biennale with her solo exhibition, "My Horizon". Highly regarded for her formal and stylistic experimentation in film, photography and video, Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. She now lives and works between Sydney and New York.

Our database records art auction sales of works by Tracey Moffatt from 1995 and in total 298 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 163 (55%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $270,000 for Something More sold by Deutscher and Hackett in March 2021. This year 5 works have been offered for sale. Works by Tracey Moffatt are held by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and a further ten major public national galleries (see list below).

Tracey Moffatt is listed in the following standard biographical references:

  • Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
  • Tracey Moffatt is classified as one of the top Australian Indigenous artists by leading Aboriginal fine art gallery, Cooee Gallery, Sydney.

Artists' Resale Royalty

Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…

Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.

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