Boyd Painting Sells for $800,000

Arthur Boyd's work has gone under the hammer for $800,000. (Photos.com)

SYDNEY—Arthur Boyd's landscape painting Moby Dick Hill, near Frankston, Victoria, has gone under the hammer for $800,000.

The 1949 piece by the late Australian artist was sold on Wednesday night at a Deutscher-Menzies auction in Sydney.

The hammer price for the rural Victorian study -- which features a windmill, crows, tilled fields and steam train in the distance -- fell within the estimate of $750,000 to $950,000.

The other major work sold at the auction was Earths (Earths) Creation II by indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, with a winning bid of $300,000.

The hammer price was $50,000 below the estimate.

Ms Kngwarreye completed the work in 1995, just a year before she died.