# Bud Helbig - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T20:34:45.825Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2016-10-28
- Latest auction date: 2024-09-10
- Median realised price: $275
- Price range: $100 to $1,708

## Market Takeaway
Bud Helbig has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $275. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($275\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($150 to $412\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 92.3% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 7.7% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $412
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-09-10
- Days since latest sale: 595
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Westbridge Fine Art Auction House: 3 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 2 lots
- Altermann Galleries: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- J Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC: 1 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 1 lots
- MBA Seattle Auction LLC: 1 lots
- March In Montana: 1 lots
- O'Gallerie: 1 lots
- Revere Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-10 | Bud Helbig \(1919\-2002\), "Day Money," 1981 | John Moran Auctioneers | $412
2. 2023-11-07 | Bud Helbig \(1919\-2002\) Herefords 6 x 8 in. framed 10 x 12 in. \(Painted circa 1985.\) | Bonhams | $900
3. 2023-05-18 | Bud Helbig, Horse & Foal, 1972 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $183
4. 2023-05-18 | Bud Helbig, Milk Cows Ain't All Bad, 1977 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,708
5. 2023-05-16 | Bud Helbig "Open Country" Cowboys Oil on Canvas | Revere Auctions | $275
6. 2022-01-18 | BUD HELBIG WATERCOLOR ON PAPER | O'Gallerie | $100
7. 2021-08-20 | BUD HELBIG \(AMERICAN, 1919\-2002\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $150
8. 2021-06-19 | Bud Helbig | Wooten & Wooten Auctioneers | $150
9. 2020-03-05 | Bud Helbig \(1919\-2002 Montana\) ''Long Legs Short Grass'' 1977 Bronze Sculpture 7''x8''. A western sculpture of a horse. Signed and numbered 12 of 24 edition with Powell Foundry mark. Excellent condition. | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $175
10. 2019-05-31 | Bud Helbig \| The Babysitter | Altermann Galleries | $400
11. 2018-03-16 | Bud Helbig, watercolor | March In Montana | $400
12. 2018-01-27 | Bud Helbig \- A Test of Wills | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | CA$500
13. 2017-11-05 | Bud Helbig \- A Test of Wills | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | N/A
14. 2017-08-27 | Bud Helbig \- A Test of Wills | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | N/A
15. 2016-10-28 | Bud Helbig \(1919\-2002\) Western Watercolor | J Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC | $140

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