Jackson Hole Art Auction's two September sales total US$18.3m, a house record

What happened

Jackson Hole Art Auction took US$18.3m across two live sales at the Center for the Arts on 18 and 19 September 2026, according to Antiques and The Arts Weekly. The sell-through rate (the share of lots that found a buyer) was 94 per cent.

The report describes the weekend as the highest sale total in the auction's history.

The first session was a solo sale of Mark Maggiori's exhibition, Rise of the Western Lights, which comprised 31 works and realised US$9.3m. The 20th Annual Jackson Hole Art Auction followed the next day. Prices quoted in the report include the buyer's premium (the auction house's fee on top of the hammer price).

Maggiori's The Prophecy (2024, oil on canvas) made US$1.3m against an estimate of US$300,000–500,000. The report describes the result as a new world record. His The Trackers, a 20 by 20 inch canvas, made US$480,000.

Other prices reported were US$480,000 for G. Harvey's Rawhide and Roughnecks, US$390,000 for W. Herbert Dunton's October Aspens and US$288,000 for a Charles M. Russell watercolour. Jonathan Noon set a world auction record at US$78,000 for My Way, more than four times its US$18,000 high estimate.

The comparison with last year needs care. A 2025 report by Sporting Classics Daily gave US$13.5m for the house's 19th annual live auction, held on 13 September 2025, with 97 per cent of 432 lots sold. That report's premium basis is not established in the material reviewed.

This year's total is higher, but it combines two sessions, and the 2025 sell-through was three percentage points higher.

Taking the Maggiori session's US$9.3m out of the US$18.3m leaves the 20th annual sale below the US$13.5m reported for the single 2025 sale, by our arithmetic, although the 2025 premium basis is unknown.