Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 18, 2024
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, (1942-2001), Untitled, c 1979, Synthetic Polymer Paints on Board, 61cm x 50.5cm
Est: $6,000 - $7,000
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula (1942-2001) Untitled, c 1979 Synthetic Polymer Paints on Board
Bargain Hunt Auctions
Nov. 12, 2024
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA, UNTITLED (SNAKE DREAMING AT LAMPITJINYA), 1985
Est: $15,000 - $18,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA 1942-2001 UNTITLED (SNAKE DREAMING AT LAMPITJINYA), 1985 acrylic on linen 81 x 101 cm; 83.5 x 103.5 cm (framed) artwork cataloguing details verso PROVENANCE Papunya Tula Artists, NT Cat No. TT83 Daphne Williams Collection, Vic Private Collection, Vic Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Vic Cat No. 280201 Private Collection, Vic Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists ©Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula / Copyright Agency, 2024 Turkey Tolson joined Papunya Tula artists as one of its youngest members, painting his earliest artworks for Geoff Bardon in 1972. He was one of the most innovative and figurative artists of the Papunya Tula movement's early days. Throughout the 1980s, Tolson's unassuming leadership style and commitment to the community, combined with his individual approach, became the hallmarks of an enduring career. He introduced his Spear Straightening imagery around 1990 and retuned to it again and again thereafter. In time, it became his leitmotif. However his earlier works like this demonstrate the dominance of figurative elements. This painting comes originally from the personal collection of Daphne Williams, one of the most respected participants in Aboriginal Art and longest serving manager of Papunya Tula artists. This piece is a fine example of an Australian Aboriginal artwork.
Art Leven (formerly Cooee Art)
Oct. 02, 2024
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Haast's Bluff, N.T. (1942-2001), Spear Straightening c.2000, Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula Haast's Bluff, N.T. (1942-2001) Spear Straightening c.2000 Synthetic polymer paint on linen Certificate and photo are in digital format.
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Oct. 02, 2024
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Haast's Bluff, N.T. (1942-2001), Tingari - Women at Yuawlki, Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $800 - $1,200
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula Haast's Bluff, N.T. (1942-2001) Tingari - Women at Yuawlki Synthetic polymer paint on linen Certificate and photo are in digital format.
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Aug. 25, 2024
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA, (C.1942-2001), "Spear Straighteing", Acrylic on canvas., 38cm x 126cm
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (C.1942-2001) "Spear Straighteing" Acrylic on canvas. Painted in 1998. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang.
Ozbid Auctions
Jul. 23, 2024
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001), Tingari & Spear Straightening
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001) Tingari & Spear Straightening acrylic on linen inscribed verso: 42344 48.5 x 128.5cm PROVENANCE Aboriginal Desert Art Gallery, Woodend (accompanied by a certificate of authenticity) Private Collection, Melbourne
Gibson's
May. 19, 2024
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001)"Spear Straightening & Tingari"Acrylic on canvas.Painted in 1994.Comes with Certificate of Authenticity.Artwork is stretched and ready to hang.Image: 76cm x 125cmÂ
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TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening & Tingari" Acrylic on canvas. Painted in 1994. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. Image: 76cm x 125cm
Ozbid Auctions
May. 19, 2024
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001)"Spear Straightening"Acrylic on linen.Painted in 1999Comes with Certificate of Authenticity.Artwork is stretched and ready to hang.60cm x 112cmÂ
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TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on linen. Painted in 1999 Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. 60cm x 112cm
Ozbid Auctions
Apr. 16, 2024
ANDREW SPENCER TJAPALTJARRI, (1955 -), Untitled (Tingari), 1992, acrylic on Belgian linen, 122 x 61 cm. (48.0 x 24.0 in.), frame: 130 x 68 x 3 cm. (51.1 x 26.7 x 1.1 in.)
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
ANDREW SPENCER TJAPALTJARRI (1955 - ) Untitled (Tingari), 1992 acrylic on Belgian linen inscribed verso, Papunya Tula Artists AS921246 6/12/92
Lawsons
Mar. 05, 2024
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Spear Ceremony, 1998
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
In this classic example the horizontal bands of dots change colour subtly evoking the shimmering heat of the fire and the vast distances of the artist's desert country. Within this powerful work lies the deep knowledge of a fully initiated man who has imbued it with the spirit of his ancestors and their important stories. The parallel bands represent spears, which the Mitukatjirri Men straightened by warming the wood over a fire, bending it into shape. In the Dreaming, they travelled from a claypan at Tjulula to llyingaungau, a rocky outcrop far to the west of Alice Springs, where they made camp while they waited for the men from Tikari to arrive.
Cooee Art
Mar. 05, 2024
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Spear Dreaming, 2000
Est: $1,800 - $2,200
Turkey Tolson introduced his Spear Straightening imagery around 1990 in which horizontal bands of dots change colour subtly evoking the shimmering heat of the fire and the vast distances of the artist's desert country. In the accompanying Dreaming narrative, the Mitukatjirri Men, travelled from a claypan at Tjulula to llyingaungau, a rocky outcrop far to the west of Alice Springs, where they made camp. At this time a group of men entered the country from Tikari, to the north. A fight ensued after which the Mitukatjarri Men travelled to the nearby cave where they made their ceremonies. The parallel bands represent spears, which the men straightened by warming the wood over a fire, bending it into shape as they waited for the men from Tikari to arrive. Within this powerful work lies the deep knowledge of a fully initiated man who has imbued it with the spirit of his ancestors and their important stories.
Cooee Art
Jan. 28, 2024
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 1942-2001) " Spear Straightening & Tingari " Acrylic on canvas. Painted in 2001.
Est: $400 - $800
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 1942-2001) "Spear Straightening & Tingari " Acrylic on canvas. Painted in 2001. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. Image: 30cm x 40cm
Ozbid Auctions
Jan. 28, 2024
TURKEY TOLSEN TJUPURRULA " Spear Straightening " Acrylic on canvas. Painted in 2000. Artwork is framed and ready to hang.
Est: $500 - $1,000
TURKEY TOLSEN TJUPURRULA "Spear Straightening " Acrylic on canvas. Painted in 2000. Artwork is framed and ready to hang. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. I: 40cm x 36cm, F: 44cm x 40cm
Ozbid Auctions
Jan. 28, 2024
TURKEY TOLSEN TJUPURRULA " Spear Straightening " Acrylic on linen. Painted in 2000.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
TURKEY TOLSEN TJUPURRULA "Spear Straightening " Acrylic on linen. Painted in 2000. Comes with Ceritifcate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. 97cm x 123cm
Ozbid Auctions
Jan. 28, 2024
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 1942-2001) " Spear Straightening & Tingari " Acrylic on canvas.
Est: $400 - $600
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 1942-2001) "Spear Straightening & Tingari " Acrylic on canvas. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. Image: 30cm x 46cm
Ozbid Auctions
Dec. 03, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on canvas
Est: $500 - $1,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on canvas Painted in 2000 Comes with Certificate of Authenticity Artwork is stretched and ready to hang Image: 46cm x 46cm
Ozbid Auctions
Dec. 03, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 942-2001) "Tingari " Comes with Certificate of Authenticity
Est: $600 - $1,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 942-2001) "Tingari " Comes with Certificate of Authenticity Artwork is framed and ready to hang Image: 43cm x 53cm
Ozbid Auctions
Dec. 03, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on canvas
Est: $400 - $800
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on canvas Painted in -- Comes with Certificate of Authenticity Artwork is framed and ready to hang Image: 33cm x 45cm, Frame: 38cm x 50cm
Ozbid Auctions
Dec. 03, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on canvas
Est: $400 - $800
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on canvas Comes with Certificate of Authenticity Artwork is stretched and ready to hang 42cm x 47cm
Ozbid Auctions
Nov. 21, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001) (Language group: Pintupi) Snake Dreaming 1980 synthetic polymer paint on canvasboard 45.5 x 61cm
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001) (Language group: Pintupi) Snake Dreaming 1980 synthetic polymer paint on canvasboard 45.5 x 61cm PROVENANCE: The Artist Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne Private collection, Tasmania Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Mossgreen Auctions, Melbourne, 8 April 2008, lot 180 The Le Pley Collection, Western Australia, acquired from the above OTHER NOTES: © Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula/Copyright Agency, 2023
Leonard Joel
Nov. 08, 2023
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Spear Straightening, 1997
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
Quiet and unassuming in manner, Turkey Tolson was one of the younger artists who began painting at Papunya under the guidance and encouragement of Geoff Bardon. Though Tolson was born near Haastâs Bluff, his ancestral country lay in Pintupi country, deep in the Western Desert.
Cooee Art
Nov. 08, 2023
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Spear Straightening, 1995
Est: $18,000 - $25,000
In this magnificent example of Turkey Tolson's Spear Straightening imagery, the horizontal bands of dots change colour subtly evoking the shimmering heat of the fire and the vast distances of the artist's desert country. Within this powerful work lies the deep knowledge of a fully initiated man who has imbued it with the spirit of his ancestors and their important stories.
Cooee Art
Nov. 08, 2023
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Untitled (Spear Dreaming), c. 1995
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula was among the first of a slightly younger generation of artists who began painting at Papunya in 1973. From the outset he was distinguishable as one of the centres most innovative artists.
Cooee Art
Nov. 05, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening"
Est: $400 - $800
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on linen. Painted in --. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is framed and ready to hang. Image: 30cm x 45cm, Frame: 35cm x 50cm
Ozbid Auctions
Nov. 05, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening"
Est: $500 - $1,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on Linen. Painted in --. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is framed and ready to hang. Image: 20cm x 25cm, Frame: 25cm x 30cm
Ozbid Auctions
Nov. 05, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Tingari and Spear Straightening"
Est: $800 - $1,500
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Tingari and Spear Straightening" Acrylic on Linen. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. Image: 49cm x 129cm
Ozbid Auctions
Nov. 05, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening"
Est: $1,200 - $2,500
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on Linen. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. Image: 51cm x 137cm
Ozbid Auctions
Nov. 05, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening"
Est: $600 - $1,200
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on linen. Painted in --. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is framed and ready to hang. Image: 56cm x 66cm, Frame: 60cm x 70cm
Ozbid Auctions
Nov. 05, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening"
Est: $600 - $1,200
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on canvas. Painted in --. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. Image: 43cm x 53cm
Ozbid Auctions
Sep. 12, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001), Untitled 1995
Est: $300 - $500
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001) Untitled 1995 woodblock on paper edition 21/30 signed, editioned and dated on margin: 21/30 Turkey Tolsen 1995 30 x 22.3 cm PROVENANCE: Mrs Rae Rothfield, Melbourne Sotheby's, Melbourne, The Rae Rothfield Collection, 23/10/2019, Lot 200 Private Collection, Melbourne
Gibson's
Aug. 27, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) “Spear Straightening”
Est: $600 - $1,200
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) “Spear Straightening” Acrylic on canvas. Painted in 1995. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. 62cm x 53cm
Ozbid Auctions
Jun. 18, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Tingari"
Est: $600 - $1,200
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Tingari" Acrylic on canvas. Painted in 2001. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is framed and ready to hang. Image: 40cm x 86cm, Frame: 43cm x 88cm
Ozbid Auctions
Jun. 04, 2023
TIM JOHNSON; TURKEY TOLSON "UNTITLED"
Est: $6,000 - $10,000
Synthetic Polymer Paints on Canvas Circa 1983 38cm x 46cm
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers
Jun. 04, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON "UNTITLED"
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Large synthetic polymer paints on board. Circa 1980.A rare early work on board 61cm x 50.5cm
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers
Jun. 04, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON "SNAKE DREAMING AT LAMPITJINYA"
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
Circa 1985 Important large synthetic polymer paints on Belgian linen. (Note:From the Collection of Daphne Williams former manager of Papunya Tula Artists) 80cm x 1.01m
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers
May. 28, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA - "Tingari"
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA "Tingari" Acrylic on linen. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. 113cm x 130cm
Ozbid Auctions
May. 28, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJAPURRULA - "Spear Straightening"
Est: $500 - $1,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJAPURRULA "Spear Straightening" Acrylic on linen on board. Painting is framed and ready to hang. Image: 19cm x 45cm, Frame: 27cm x 52cm
Ozbid Auctions
May. 22, 2023
Turkey Tolson, , Untitled, Acrylic on linen
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Turkey Tolson Untitled Acrylic on linen
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
May. 08, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001), Lampintja 1988
Est: $3,500 - $5,500
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001) Lampintja 1988 synthetic polymer paint on canvas inscribed verso: TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA / TT881047 86 x 46cm PROVENANCE Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs (bears Papunya Tula cat. no. verso) Sotheby's, Melbourne, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art,17 June 1996, Lot 51 Alison Kelly, Melbourne © Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula/Copyright Agency, 2023
Gibson's
Apr. 16, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001), Two Women Travelling at Puja
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (1938-2001) Two Women Travelling at Puja synthetic polymer paint on linen inscribed verso: TT860765 182.5 x 182cm PROVENANCE Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs Sotheby's, Melbourne, Fine Aboriginal and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17June 1996, Lot 29 Corporate Collection, Melbourne Christies, Melbourne, Australian Aboriginal Art, 30 August 2005, Lot 19
Gibson's
Mar. 26, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Tingari"
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c.1942-2001) "Tingari" Acrylic on linen. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. 80cm x 127cm
Ozbid Auctions
Mar. 26, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 1942-2001)"Straightening Spears"
Est: $500 - $1,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 1942-2001)"Straightening Spears"Acrylic on canvas.Painted in 1998.Comes with Certificate of Authenticity.Artwork is stretched and ready to hang.23cm x 25cm
Ozbid Auctions
Jan. 04, 2023
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 1942-2001)"Straightening Spears"
Est: $800 - $1,500
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA (c. 1942-2001)"Straightening Spears"Acrylic on canvas.Painted in 2001.Comes with Certificate of Authenticity.Artwork is stretched and ready to hang.33cm x 89cm
Ozbid Auctions
Oct. 11, 2022
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula - Straightening Spears, 1999
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
Turkey Tolson joined Papunya Tula artists as one of its youngest members, painting his earliest artworks for Geoff Bardon in 1972. He was amongst the most innovative and figurative artists of the Papunya Tula movement’s early days. Throughout the 1980s, Tolson’s unassuming leadership style and commitment to the community, combined with his individual approach, became the hallmarks of an enduring career. He introduced his Spear Straightening imagery around 1990 and returned to it again and again thereafter. In this beautiful example, the horizontal bands of dots evoke the shimmering heat and vast distances of the artist’s desert country. In the Dreaming, the Mitukatjirri Men travelled from a claypan at Tjulula to Llyingaungau, a rocky outcrop far to the west of Alice Springs, where they made camp. A group of men entered the country from Tjikari, to the north. A fight ensued, after which the Mitukatjarri Men travelled to the nearby cave where they made their ceremonies. The parallel bands of dots represent spears, which the men straightened by warming the wood over a fire, bending it into shape as they waited for the men from Tjikari to arrive.
Cooee Art
Sep. 06, 2022
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA "Straightening Spears Tingarri"
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA "Straightening Spears Tingarri" Acrylic on canvas. Provenance: Desert Art Gallery, 1998. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artwork is stretched and ready to hang. 76cm x 128cm
Ozbid Auctions
Sep. 01, 2022
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA, UNTITLED, SYNTHETIC POLYMER PAINT ON CANVAS, INSCRIBED WITH ARTIST'S NAME AND PAPUNYA TULA CAT. NO. TT9602..
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA, UNTITLED, SYNTHETIC POLYMER PAINT ON CANVAS, INSCRIBED WITH ARTIST'S NAME AND PAPUNYA TULA CAT. NO. TT9602106 (ACCOMPANIED BY CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY), 46 X 38CM
Leonard Joel
Jul. 29, 2022
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, 1942-2001, Tingari Dreaming, Acrylic on linen, 47 x 46 in. (119.38 x 116.84 cm.)
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula 1942-2001 Tingari Dreaming Acrylic on linen 1998; Semon Deeb & Natalie Hollow, Jinta Desert Art, Sydney, cat. no. 2619; acquired in 1998; The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica
Abell Auction
Jul. 28, 2022
Turkey Tolsen Tjupurrula (1938-2001)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Straigtening Spears at Ilyingaugau, 1999 synthetic polymer paint on linen, signed verso 'Turkey Tolsen'
Shapiro Auctioneers