Aboriginal painting fetches record $2.4m
Published July 24th, 2007
A PAINTING that hung for 20 years in a bank cafeteria sold at auction in Melbourne last night for $2.4 million.
Warlugulong, by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, smashed the record for Aboriginal art and became the fifth most expensive Australian painting ever to go under the hammer.
It was the largest and most important Western Desert or “dot” painting in private hands when it went up at Sotheby’s in Armadale last night.
The buyer, who was in the room, told the Herald Sun he had bought it for a private collector in Australia, but would not reveal the collector’s name.
