Couer d’Alene Auction = $28.5m

Frederic Remington, Cutting Out Pony Herds ($5-7m) $5m hammer

Norman Rockwell, A Scout is Loyal ($4-6m) $3.8m

Howard Terpning, Telling of Legends ($600-900k) $1.5m

Howard Terpning, Shield of Her Husband ($300-500k) $900k hammer

Charles M. Russell, Cowboys on the Plains ($400-600K) $600k hammer

Thomas Moran, The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone ($250-350k) $475k hammer

Charles M. Russell, A Pitcher ($150-200k) $375k hammer

Gerard Curtis Delano, The Trail Ahead ($200-350k) $350 hammer

Charles M. Russell, The Bucker & the Buckaroo ($200-300K) $375k hammer

The annual Couer d’Alene auction of Western art held in Reno, Nevada on Friday made $28.5m in hammer prices with an astonishing 96% of the 308 lots sold. That’s only 12 lots that failed to find buyers. Nearly a quarter of the works sold above the high estimate.

Last year’s sale was $18m and there were 600 registered bidders participating in the event, according to the AP.

One of the biggest surprises of the auction was the $1.7 million that Howard Terpning’s 1989 painting “Telling of Legends” fetched, according to organizers. The painting by the Tucson, Ariz., artist features two American Indians sitting on a bluff overlooking the prairie.

“That’s a whopper for a living Western artist,” Overby said, adding it was expected to sell for between $600,000 and $900,000.

Remington painting draws $5.6 million at Nevada auction (Fox News)