# Lucy Leuppe McKelvey - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T21:43:27.953Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 18
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2016-09-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-12
- Median realised price: $640
- Price range: $488 to $1,920

## Market Takeaway
Lucy Leuppe McKelvey has 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $640. 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 \($640\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $850\) 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: 81.3% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.8% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $799
- Previous 12 months median: $640
- Median shift: 24.8%
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-12
- Days since latest sale: 260
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Hindman: 5 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 4 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Bradford's: 2 lots
- Locati LLC: 2 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots
- South Bay Auctions Inc: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-12 | Lucy Leuppe Mckelvey, Buffalo People of Shootingway Chant | Santa Fe Art Auction | $799
2. 2024-11-17 | Lucy Leuppe Mckelvey \(Born 1950\) Navajo Pottery Vessel | Locati LLC | $600
3. 2024-11-17 | LUCY LEUPPE MCKELVEY "MALE & FEMALE CLOUD PEOPLE ON CLOUD HOUSES BETWEEN RAINBOWS" POLYCHROME POTTERY JAR | Bradford's | $640 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lucy-leuppe-mckelvey-male-female-cloud-people-on-cloud-houses-between-rainbows-polychrome-pottery-jar-1042-c-d244d20a21
4. 2024-11-17 | AWARD WINNER! LUCY LEUPPE MCKELVEY "HORNED TOADS OF ANTWAY CHANT" POLYCHROME POTTERY JAR | Bradford's | $560
5. 2024-08-14 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey, Polychrome Pottery Jar: Whirling Rainbow Goddesses of the Windway Chant | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,920
6. 2024-08-14 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey, Polychrome Pottery Jar: Whirling Rainbow Goddess of Mountainway Chant, ca. 1970 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,280
7. 2023-08-17 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey, Mountainway Rainbow Goddess Jar | Santa Fe Art Auction | $488
8. 2023-03-19 | Lucy Leuppe Mckelvey \(Born 1950\) Pottery | Locati LLC | $650
9. 2022-10-22 | LUCY LEUPPE MCKELVEY \(Navajo, b. 1950\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $950
10. 2022-10-04 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey \(b. 1950, Diné\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $1,300
11. 2021-11-04 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey \(Dine, b. 1950\) Pottery Jar,From the Corn We Came | Hindman | $500
12. 2021-11-04 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey \(Dine, b. 1950\) Whirling Rainbows and 4 Sacred Plants | Hindman | $850
13. 2021-11-04 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey \(Dine, b. 1950\) Whirling Rainbow Goddesses of the Windway Chant | Hindman | $850
14. 2021-05-06 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey \(Dine, b. 1950\) Mother Earth and Father Sky, 2011 | Hindman | $500
15. 2019-11-07 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey \(Navajo, 20th Century\) Inspired by Navajo Rock Art and Navajo Polychrome Pottery of Oinehtah | Hindman | $500
16. 2019-11-07 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey \(Navajo, 20th Century\) Blessing & Feeding the Masks of the Nightway Chant | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $512
17. 2016-12-06 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey \(20th century\- Navajo\) | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
18. 2016-09-10 | Lucy Leuppe McKelvey \(20th century\- Navajo\) | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A

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