Works in the database
104
Works with images
88
Works with multiple sales
6

Past Sales

Untitled - Snakes, c1970s
Shark
Wagilag Story (Snakes and Fish), C.1965

Sales by Medium

Paintings
Sold 68 works for
$683,488
Objects
Sold 3 works for
$19,920

Where to buy or sell art works by Mawalan Marika

Auction Houses

Sotheby's
Sold 46 works for
$538,264
Deutscher and Hackett
Sold 10 works for
$116,361
Joel Fine Art
Sold 2 works for
$24,890

Australian Aboriginal artist Mawalan Marika was born in 1908 and works in oils and acrylics. Mawalan Marika died in 1967.

Our database records art auction sales of works by Mawalan Marika from 1995 and in total 104 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 71 (68%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $81,501 for The Seagull sold by Sotheby's in December 2019. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Mawalan Marika are held by the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and a further four major public national galleries (see list below).

Mawalan Marika is listed in the following standard biographical references:

  • McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 99
  • 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.
  • Mawalan Marika 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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