# Rafael Medina - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T12:13:20.001Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 14
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2000-08-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-30
- Median realised price: $288
- Price range: $70 to $1,320

## Market Takeaway
Rafael Medina has 14 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $288. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($288\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($100 to $700\) 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: 83.3% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 16.7% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $70
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-30
- Days since latest sale: 308
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 5 lots
- Allard Auctions: 3 lots
- Amelia Jeffers: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots
- Locati LLC: 1 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-30 | RAFAEL MEDINA \(ZIA PUEBLO, 1929\-1998\) TEMPERA ON BOARD OF NATIVE AMERICAN DANCER. | Amelia Jeffers | $70
2. 2025-06-30 | RAFAEL MEDINA \(ZIA PUEBLO, 1929\-1998\) "THE ZIA PUEBLO DEER DANCE" AND "THE EAGLE DANCER" GOUACHE ON PAPER. | Amelia Jeffers | $200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-rafael-medina-zia-pueblo-1929-1998-the-zia-pueblo-deer-dance-and-the-eagle-dancer-gouache-on-paper-386-c-47d439bacc
3. 2021-11-04 | Rafael Medina \(Zia, 1929\-1998\) Untitled \(Buffalo Dancer\) | Hindman | $500
4. 2021-08-14 | Rafael Medina, Gaan Dancer, 1969 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $288
5. 2021-03-20 | Rafael Medina, Girl's Initiation: A Corn Grinding Rite, 1977 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,320
6. 2019-11-24 | Rafael Medina, Untitled, 1977 | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
7. 2019-04-20 | Rafael Medina \(Teeyacheena\), Zia, Eagle Dance,1971 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,000
8. 2019-04-20 | Rafael Medina \(Teeyacheena\), Zia, Deer Dance,1973 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $900
9. 2018-09-23 | RAFAEL MEDINA \(AMERICAN, B. 1929\) HARVEST DANCER, 1976 GOUACHE ON PAPER 14\-1/2 X | Heritage Auctions | N/A
10. 2016-11-12 | RAFAEL MEDINA \(Native American, b. 1929\). TWO NATIVE AMERICAN DANCERS: TWO WORKS FRAMED AS ONE, signed lower right. Watercolor. | Sloans & Kenyon | $200
11. 2016-04-18 | Rafael Medina \(born 1929\) Native American Pottery Vase | Locati LLC | $100
12. 2005-08-13 | Rafael Medina | Allard Auctions | $425
13. 2001-08-11 | Rafael Medina | Allard Auctions | $700
14. 2000-08-11 | Rafael Medina | Allard Auctions | $90

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