On November 4 and 5, the Santa Fe Art Auction held the Signature Annual Live Sale across three diverse sessions that realized more than $2.5 million in sales with a 90 percent sell-through rate. In addition to the three sessions, the sale also featured three unique collections: the Charles and Georgia Loloma Estate, Edward S. Curtis material from the Christopher Cardozo Collection and the Sonnett Pottery Collection.
Apache polychrome olla, ca. 1910-1920, 18 x 20½” Estimate: $40/60,000 SOLD: $54,900
“This success of the sale demonstrates the triumph of the mix of modernity and history in the Western art market today,” says Gillian Blitch, president and CEO of the Santa Fe Art Auction. “To be able to sell everything from Charles Loloma jewelry to historic 19th-century pueblo pottery speaks to the breadth and diversity of not just the auction house but our collectors as a whole.”
Oreland Joe (Southern Ute/Navajo), The Mystic One, 2002, polychrome bronze, ed. 4 of 30, 23 x 11½ x 6½” Estimate: $3/5,000 SOLD: 10,370
Santo Domingo/Cochiti storage jar, ca. 1870, fired clay, pigments, 18 x 18” Estimate: $15/25,000 SOLD: $27,450
The auction house has been offering works from the Loloma collection for more than a year, and it has performed strongly as collectors are drawn to the Loloma’s unique collection of paintings, carvings and jewelry. Top lots from that collection included a Charles Loloma gold and multi-stone inlay cuff (est. $65/95,000) that sold for $73,200, a Charles Loloma two-strand necklace (est. $4/6,000) that sold for $12,200 and Roxanne Swentzell’s Clown (est. $6/9,000) that sold over estimates at $17,080. Additionally, a Tony Abeyta painting, Yei, from the collection, sold for $20,740, well over its $12,000 high estimate.
T.C. Cannon (Kiowa, 1946-1978), Woman at Window, 1978, woodblock print, ed. 108 of 200, 17 x 15” Estimate: $4/6,000 SOLD: $15,860
T.C. Cannon (Kiowa, 1946-1978), Woman at Window, 1978, woodblock print, ed. 108 of 200, 17 x 15” Estimate: $4/6,000 SOLD: $15,860
Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo), Clown, fired clay, glazes, 10 x 11 x 9½” Estimate: $6/9,000 SOLD: $17,080
Other top lots in the sale were T.C. Cannon’s 1978 woodblock print Woman at Window, estimated at $4,000 to $6,000, that sold for $15,860; Allan Houser’s bronze Chiricahua Medicine Man (est. $5/7,000) that sold for $9,760; Oreland Joe’s bronze The Mystic One (est. $3/5,000) that sold for $10,370; and Michael Kabotie’s mixed media work Moonlight Dancers (est. $2/4,000) that sold over estimate at $9,150.
Elsewhere in the sale, an Apache polychrome olla (est. $40/60,000) from the 1910s sold for $54,900 and a Santo Domingo/Cochiti storage jar (est. $15/25,000) from around 1870 sold for $27,450.
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