Days after a potential cyber attack halted the auction the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye's Earth's Creation 1, the world-renowned indigenous artwork has sold for $2.1 million.
Created in 1994 and shown in art galleries around the world, the painting was bought by Australian art identity Tim Olsen at the Cooee Art Gallery in Paddington, Sydney on Thursday night.
The sale was meant to go ahead on Tuesday before being postponed when the server hosting the live auction crashed, either because or a cyber attack or after too many people tried to watch the event.
"It has held the record for any work of art by any Australian female since 2007 when it was sold for $1,056,000 dollars .. and now it's broken its own record by selling for $2m (plus a five per cent buyer's premium)," the head the Cooee Art Gallery, Adrian Newstead, told AAP.
He also said it was the second-highest price paid for an Aboriginal artwork after Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's Warlugulong, which sold for $2.4 million in 2007.
In a statement, auctioneer Tim Goodman said "this may be the last time an indigenous painting of this calibre will appear at auction for a very long time, if ever".
Kngwarreye was from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory and did not begin painting on canvas until she was in her 80s.
Along with the rest of the Utopia community, her artwork revolved around mark making through ceremonial activity.
