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...taken over the town, some even gathering in his front yard to paint. "There were few places in Papunya that had front lawns and I inherited the policeman's house," recalls Batty, now senior curator for Central Australian Collections at Museum Victoria. "And people like Clifford Possum and Johnny Warangkula used to come around and paint." He was met with an altogether different picture on returning recently. In nearby Alice Springs, he found budget hotels "chock-a-block full of artists, pumping the art out. I've got mixed feelings about it," Batty says. "On the one hand...
...Melbourne, he introduced Aboriginal work into their regular auctions for the first time; soon they comprised two-thirds of his sales: "It made me realize that here was a field that could stand alone." Ten years ago their Aboriginal art department was born. In its first year, a Johnny Warangkula board sold for a record $A20,000; three years later, his Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa brought $A486,500. Klingender noticed something else interesting as well: more than half his sales were going overseas. "A large percentage of Australians buy Aboriginal art for investment or for their super funds," he says...
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