Held over three days with three sessions, Santa Fe Art Auction’s Signature Annual Live Sale realized $2.5 million in sales with a 90 percent sell-through rate. The trio of sessions, held November 3 through 5, was also marked by the sale of three prominent private collections that mixed genres and materials: the Charles and Georgia Loloma Estate, Edward S. Curtis material from the Christopher Cardozo Collection and the Sonnett Pottery Collection.
Kim Wiggins, Old Santa Fe Trail, 2011, oil on canvas, 36 x 48” Estimate: $15/25,000 SOLD: $27,450
“This success of the sale demonstrates the triumph of the mix of modernity and history in the West 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.” 
Tony Abeyta, Autumn’s Imminent Arrival, oil on canvas, 18 x 24” Estimate: $16/18,000 SOLD: $30,500
Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952), The North American Indian Portfolio II, 1908, 36 photogravures on Japanese tissue with original Van Gelder overmats, 23 x 19” Estimate: $12/18,000 SOLD: $54,900
The auction house has been offering works from the Loloma and Cardozo collection for more than a year, and those collections have continuously performed strongly as collectors are drawn to the Loloma’s unique collection of paintings, carvings and jewelry and Cardozo’s deep collection of Curtis materials. Top lots from those collections included a Charles Loloma gold and multi-stone inlay cuff (est. $65/95,000) that sold for $73,200, and Portfolio II (est. $12/18,000) and Portfolio IX (est. $7/10,000) from Curtis’ The North American Indian that each sold separately for $54,900.
Gustave Baumann (1881-1971), Winter Corral, 1961, color woodcut, ed. 75 of 125, 14¼ x 13¾”. Estimate: $10/20,000 SOLD: $36,600The sale also saw a high number of Gustave Baumann woodblock prints perform very strongly, with Winter Corral (est. $10/20,000) selling the highest at $36,600. Other important lots were Peter Hurd’s Fiesta del San Ysidro (est. $8/12,000) that sold above estimates for $33,550, John Nieto’s Wolf in the Moonlight (est. $12/18,000) that sold for $33,550 and Kim Wiggins’ Old Santa Fe Trail (est. $15/25,000) that sold for $27,450. 
Peter Hurd (1904-1984), Fiesta del San Ysidro (San Patricio NM), 1977, watercolor on paper, 21 x 29¾” Estimate: $8/12,000
SOLD: $33,550
John Nieto (1936-2018), Wolf in the Moonlight, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24” Estimate: $12/18,000 SOLD: $33,550Tony Abeyta had two works that sold over estimates: Autumn’s Imminent Arrival (est. $16/18,000) that sold for $30,500 and At the Mouth of the River (est. $8/12,000) that closed at $18,300.
Other artists who sold over estimate include Michael Kabotie, Tucker Smith, Dave McGary, Gene Kloss, T.C. Cannon and Glenna Goodacre. —
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