A PAINTING by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri is going to auction for more than 60 times its sale price 10 years ago.

The sale of a work by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri for $2 million US has set a record for the highest price ever paid for an Australian aboriginal work of art, according to Sotheby's.

Sotheby's identified the painting, which will go under the hammer in Sydney on October 18, as an early Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri board, but since the picture arrived in Australia the auction ...

SYDNEY, Australia — A painting by Australian indigenous artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri sold at auction for a record $2.1 million, Sotheby’s said. “Warlugulong,” painted in 1977, is regarded as ...