Kathleen Petyarre's Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming (1998) was among the headline lots of a sale of Aboriginal Australian art on the weekend.
It sold for $28,760 at Bonhams Sydney on September 6.
 Petyarre's pointillist paintings employ small dots to create the overall effect |
Petyarre is one of Australia's most important living artists. Her pointillist paintings have been compared to the work of the American modernists.
Her auction record stands at $96,000 for Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, set in 2008.
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