# Steve Forbis - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-07-26T03:03:43.145Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2017-03-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-18
- Median realised price: $172
- Price range: $20 to $1,037

## Market Takeaway
Steve Forbis has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $172. 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 \($172\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($20 to $270\) 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: 94.7% (18 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 5.3% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 12
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $83
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-18
- Days since latest sale: 402
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 16 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 3 lots
- Dirk Soulis Auctions: 1 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-18 | Steve Forbis, Three Prints: Dance Day Wonder \+ Hopi Girl \+ The Cradleboard | Santa Fe Art Auction | $20
2. 2025-06-18 | Steve Forbis, Suite of Two Lithographs: Dance Day Colors \+ Finishing Touch | Santa Fe Art Auction | $20
3. 2025-06-18 | Steve Forbis, Suite of Two Prints: Summer Sun \+ The Ribbon Dress | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-steve-forbis-suite-of-two-prints-summer-sun-the-ribbon-dress-319-c-07a42058dc
4. 2025-06-18 | Steve Forbis, Two Prints: New Buckskin \+ Remembering the Past | Santa Fe Art Auction | $20 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-steve-forbis-two-prints-new-buckskin-remembering-the-past-318-c-71741fe9e2
5. 2025-06-18 | Steve Forbis, Suite of Three Prints: Finishing Touch \+ Waiting to Dance \+ Zuni Sun | Santa Fe Art Auction | $20
6. 2025-06-18 | Steve Forbis, Two Lithographs: Crow Radiance \+ Navajo Daughter | Santa Fe Art Auction | $20
7. 2025-04-16 | Steve Forbis, Two Prints: Sharing Traditions | Santa Fe Art Auction | $270
8. 2025-04-16 | Steve Forbis, Two Prints: Cross Roads \+ Heritage | Santa Fe Art Auction | $147 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-steve-forbis-two-prints-cross-roads-heritage-259-c-9ff4c0facf
9. 2025-04-16 | Steve Forbis, Two Lithographs: Cooler in the Shade, 1984 \+ Grandmother, Aos Lesson | Santa Fe Art Auction | $196
10. 2025-04-16 | Steve Forbis, Three Prints: The Butterfly \+ The Weaver \+ Trading Post Ride | Santa Fe Art Auction | $172
11. 2025-04-16 | Steve Forbis, Two Prints: First Phase \+ Singer, AOS Reward | Santa Fe Art Auction | $172
12. 2025-04-16 | Steve Forbis, Pair of Prints: Pride and Envy \+ Pride of Texas | Santa Fe Art Auction | $83
13. 2024-05-08 | Steve Forbis, Pair of Lithographs: Pride and Envy \+ Prairie Partners | Santa Fe Art Auction | $541
14. 2024-03-14 | Steve Forbis, Two Works: Arrow, 1986 \+ New Buckskin | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,037
15. 2024-02-08 | Steve Forbis, Hopi Girl, 1982 \+ The Butterfly, 1982 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $268
16. 2023-03-15 | Steve Forbis, Pair of Lithographs: Finishing Touch, 1986 \+ Sharing Traditions, 1987 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $268
17. 2022-11-12 | STEVE FORBIS \(B. 1950\) COLORED PENCIL ON PAPER | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $300
18. 2022-05-14 | STEVE FORBIS \(D.2022\) NATIVE AMERICAN LITHOGRAPH | Austin Auction Gallery | $60
19. 2021-10-22 | \(2\) STEVE FORBIS & BLACKBEAR BOSIN PRINTS | Austin Auction Gallery | N/A
20. 2021-05-22 | STEVE FORBIS \(B.1950\) NATIVE AMERICAN LITHOGRAPH | Austin Auction Gallery | N/A
21. 2019-05-27 | Steve Forbis \(TX, b. 1950\), Two Original Portrait Drawings | Leland Little Auctions | $450
22. 2017-03-11 | STEVE FORBIS \(b. 1950\): REMEMBERING THE PAST | STAIR | $50

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