Russell's "Piegans" sold in 2005 for $5.6 million, more than double the highest price his work had sold for a few years earlier. At auction in 2008, Russell's oil painting "The Hold Up (20 Miles to Deadwood)" sold for $5.2 million, and his bronze sculpture "Buffalo Hunt" (which depicted two Native Americans attacking a running bison) sold for $4.1 million. In July 2009, Russell's 1907 watercolor and gouache "The Truce" went for $2.03 million to an anonymous phone bidder. Russell's 1911 by bronze sculpture, "Bronc Twister", auctioned in 2008 for $805,000—far above the $300,000 pre-auction estimate.