Held during the week of Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe Art Auction’s Native Market sale will offer works by prominent Indigenous artists, both contemporary and historic. The sale will include a large selection of fine pottery, paintings, textiles, works on paper, baskets, katsinam, sculptures and jewelry. This is also the auction’s largest sale, by volume, of the year.
Tony Abeyta (Diné (Navajo)), Still Life, 2005, oil on canvas, 18 x 18 in. Estimate: $6/9,000
Lots to make note of during the August sale include Roxanne Swentzell’s bronze Child, which has a presale estimate of $10,000 to $20,000. “Child is an excellent, classic example of Roxanne Swentzell’s work, created in a small edition of 10 castings,” says Gillian Blitch, Santa Fe Art Auction president. “The artist frequently works with mother and child subject matter, often autobiographical in nature and using herself and her daughter, Rose Simpson, as muses. She is known for her powerful, emotive sculptures which depict figurative Puebloan scenes and multi-generational narratives. Her work is held in private and institutional collections worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum, Denver Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian.”
Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo), Child, bronze, ed. 4 of 10, 41 x 35¾ x 26 in. Estimate: $10/20,000
Margarete Bagshaw (Santa Clara Pueblo, 1964-2015), Personal Doorway to Personal Time, 2003, oil on canvas, 30¼ x 44 in. Estimate: $5/8,000
Tony Abeyta’s oil Still Life depicts a vase of flowers surrounded by katsinam and is estimated to sell for $6,000 to $9,000. “Tony Abeyta is one of the most prominent contemporary Native American artists, whose distinctive style draws from Indigenous mythology, archeological artifacts and botanical symbols within a modernist aesthetic,” says Blitch. “Still Life, 2005, is a rare still life by the artist most famously known for his landscapes and abstractions. This unique, intimately sized example of the artist’s work recontextualizes the tradition of still life through the artist’s highly symbolic, luminous visual language.”
Nancy Youngblood (Santa Clara Pueblo), Lidded Carved Blackware Pot, ca. 2000, fired clay, 3½ x 3½ in. Estimate: $2/4,000
Blitch continues, “Margarete Bagshaw’s Personal Doorway to Personal Time, 2003, is a substantial piece by this acclaimed modernist artist. The artist’s highly textured, interlocking composition simultaneously pulls from geometric abstraction and Native iconography to explore themes of selfhood, spirituality and time. Daughter of Helen Hardin and granddaughter of Pablita Velarde, Bagshaw was a third-generation Santa Clara artist with a significant artistic lineage.” The oil on canvas is estimated to fetch between $5,000 and $8,000.
Additional standout lots include works by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Dan Namingha, Pablita Velarde, Carmelita Dunlap, Nancy Youngblood, Malcolm Furlow, Charles Loloma and more.
The Native Market auction will be held August 11 to 13. —
August 11-13, 2026
Native Market
Santa Fe Art Auction
932 Railfan Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505) 954-5858, www.santafeartauction.com
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