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On June 25, 2026, Artemis Fine Arts invites collectors to step into the past with an extraordinary auction of globally sourced artifacts and fine art. Broadcasting live from Boulder, Colorado, this curated sale features exceptional masterpieces from Pre-Columbian, Native American, and Tribal traditions, alongside rare fossils and foundational works from classical Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and Asia. Jurassic Period Giant Fossil Ammonite | Southern France | 31" Intact Spiral Estimate: $5,000 - $7,500.

James Verbicky Painting - Red Diptych. James Verbicky (Polish-Canadian, b. 1973). Red Diptych, oil on canvas, n.d. Signed at lower right of one panel. A large-scale two-panel painting by contemporary artist James Verbicky, this piece exemplifies Verbicky's sophisticated abstract language. The composition features sweeping circular and arc-like brushstrokes that appear to move across the divide, continuing from one canvas to another and creating a sense of flowing motion. Estimate: $16,000 - $24,000.

Tall Timor Island Wood Lopo Hut Architectural Element. Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Timor Island, ca. late 19th to 20th century CE. From the heart of a Timorese Lopo Round hut, a communal haven where stories echoed and harvests found sanctuary, emerges this evocative and quite sizable wooden architectural element. It once adorned a significant part of the structure, its sturdy form culminating in a bold crest that represents stylized buffalo horns, symbols of strength and fertility. Estimate: $6,000 - $9,000.

Taino Stone Avian Collar / Yoke, Dominican Republic. Pre-Columbian, Dominican Republic, Taino, ca. 1000–1500 CE. A sinuous closed loop of patiently abraded stone, shaped into a hoop or collar whose swelling upper arc resolves into the abstracted head of a long-beaked bird. The carver coaxed the avian likeness from the volume itself, a soft swell suggesting an eye, the tapering curve at the join implying a beak tucked along the ring's circumference. Estimate: $3,500 - $5,000.

Rodolfo Morales Mixed Media Collage - Puppies (1993). Rodolfo Morales (Mexican, 1925-2001). Puppies Drinking Tea. Mixed Media Collage, 1993. Signed at lower right. A playful yet tender mixed media collage, this work by Rodolfo Morales presents two wide-eyed puppies flanking a tea bag labeled "Plantation Mint," surrounded by shimmering silver hearts inscribed "10 de Mayo" and "Felicidades," transforming an everyday object into a dreamlike celebration of memory and affection. Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000.

Roman Revival 20 kt Gold Ring w/ Female Portrait. Europe, late 19th–early 20th century CE. The broad hoop surmounted by an oval bezel stamped with a profile portrait bust of a female in the antique manner, the surface with a softly matte finish throughout. Estimate: $3,000 - $4,500.

Late 19th C. Indigenous Northwest Coast Cedar Wood Bird Rattle. Native American, West Coast Canada, Nuu-chah-nulth / Kwakwaka'wakw, ca. 1890–1910 CE. A carved cedar rattle in the form of a long-necked bird, the body hollowed to produce sound with small pebbles inside, and a cylindrical handle. Estimate: $2,250 - $3,500.

Prehistoric "Trilobite Highway" Fossils in Stone Matrix. North Africa, Morocco, Ordovician period, ca. 485 to 444 million years ago. A striking fossil matrix displaying seven trilobites preserved in raised relief, arranged in a natural linear formation, as if traversing a path or a "trilobite highway." Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000.

Large Cretaceous Hadrosaur Dinosaur Coal Mine Footprint Cast. Ca. 78998000 - 78997950 BCE. North America, Western Interior Basin, Late Cretaceous, Campanian Stage. A natural cast of a hadrosaur footprint, lifted from the ceiling of a Cretaceous coal mine and bearing the trace of a single moment some seventy-five million years deep. The duck-billed maker, likely Prosaurolophus or a closely related hadrosaurine, pressed its broad padded sole into the saturated peat of a Western Interior swamp during the Campanian Stage of the Late Cretaceous. Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000.

19th C. Sulu Islands Wood Boat Shaped Funerary Marker. Southeast Asia, Indonesia / Philippines, Maluku Islands / Sulu Islands, Sama-Bajau culture, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A long, wooden, canoe-shaped sculpture that was used a burial marker (sunduk), representing the spiritual journey in the afterlife. Estimate: $1,800 - $2,700.