# Helen Shupla - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T23:58:29.974Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2020-07-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-12
- Median realised price: $950
- Price range: $80 to $3,250

## Market Takeaway
Helen Shupla has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $950. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. 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 \($950\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($150 to $1,600\) 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: 50% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $1,230
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-12
- Days since latest sale: 260
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Global Auctions Company: 4 lots
- Hindman: 4 lots
- Carnegie's Auction Gallery: 3 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 3 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction: 1 lots
- Sarasota Estate Auction: 1 lots
- Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Sunset Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-12 | Helen Shupla, Melon Jar, ca. 1980 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,230
2. 2025-04-12 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-1985\) Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery Jar carved burnished redware | Carnegie's Auction Gallery | $1,200
3. 2024-12-28 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-1985\) Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery Jar carved burnished redware | Carnegie's Auction Gallery | N/A
4. 2024-10-19 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-1985\) Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery Jar carved burnished redware | Carnegie's Auction Gallery | N/A
5. 2024-09-20 | Helen Shupla \(Santa Clara, 1928\-1985\) Carved Blackware Pottery Jar | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $500
6. 2024-09-10 | Helen Shupla \(b. 1928, Santa Clara Pueblo\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $264
7. 2024-08-14 | Helen Shupla, Redware Melon Jar, ca. 1985 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $3,075
8. 2024-01-06 | HELEN SHUPLA \(1928\-1985\) SANTA CLARA BLACK POTTERY LOW BOWL. 5" DIAMETER X 1 5/8" TALL | Sunset Auction | $140
9. 2023-12-15 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-1985\) \- Santa Clara Black Jar with Carved Avanyu Design c. 1960s, 4.25" x 4.5" \(P90107B\-1123\-002\) | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | $150
10. 2023-12-15 | HELEN SHUPLA \(NATIVE AMERICAN, 1928\-1985\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $80
11. 2023-04-30 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-1985\) Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery Jar carved burnished redware | Global Auctions Company | N/A
12. 2023-04-21 | Helen Shupla \(Santa Clara, 1928\-1985\) Redware Pottery Melon Jar | Hindman | $950
13. 2023-04-21 | Helen Shupla \(Santa Clara, 1928\-1985\) Miniature Redware Pottery Melon Jars | Hindman | $425
14. 2023-01-15 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-1985\) Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery Jar carved burnished redware | Global Auctions Company | N/A
15. 2022-10-30 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-1985\) Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery Jar carved burnished redware | Global Auctions Company | $1,600
16. 2022-10-04 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-1985, Santa Clara Pueblo\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $125
17. 2022-08-13 | Helen Shupla, Melon Jar, ca. 1980 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $2,125
18. 2022-07-31 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-1985\) Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery Jar carved burnished redware | Global Auctions Company | N/A
19. 2021-11-04 | Helen Shupla \(Santa Clara, 1928\-1985\) Two\-toned Melon Pottery Jar, with Etched Decoration | Hindman | $1,100
20. 2021-05-06 | Helen Shupla \(Santa Clara, 1928\-1985\) Pottery Melon Jar | Hindman | $2,750
21. 2020-07-26 | Helen Shupla \(1928\-\) Santa Clara Redware Melon Jar | Sarasota Estate Auction | $3,250

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