First Nations Telegraph

The missing royalties

[Emilia Turzon, ABC]

When an egg-blue canvas by the late artist Kunmanara Carroll set an artist’s record at a Sotheby’s auction in New York, dealers and collectors holding the Indigenous Australian’s works likely celebrated. Back home in the central desert, the artist’s widow had mixed feelings. Her family and their tiny Anangu community in the APY Lands would see none of the cash from the sale.

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