Indigenous art acid test and that Tom Roberts

Collectors’ renewed enthusiasm for Indigenous Australian art will be tested next Wednesday in Melbourne as Deutscher and Hackett launches its first auction of the year with a select 54-lot sale.

The five highest value lots are the complete photographic suite of Tracey Moffatt’s Something More and four works fresh to the secondary market – two ground-breaking paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Lin Onus’s 1990 painting Guyi Rirrkyan (Fish and Rocks), and John Mawurndjul’s 2004 bark painting Ngalyod Rainbow Serpent.