It sold for $2.4 million, thoroughly eclipsing the previous record for an Indigenous Australian painting, set when Emily Kngwarreye's Earth's Creation was bought in May of the same year for just over $1 million.[23] Warlugulong's buyer was the National Gallery of Australia, which purchased the work as part of its 25th Anniversary Gifts Program.[25] The Gallery considers the painting to be possibly the most important in its collection of Indigenous Australian art.[12] As of 2016, the work is on display in the National Gallery.[12]