Western Art Collector – April 2015
At last year’s Scottsdale Art Auction, Kyle Polzin’s 74-inch-tall Mystic Warrior, a detailed still life of a Native American headdress, was expected to sell between $30,000 and $40,000.
Bidding climbed and hit the upper estimate early, and then crept higher and higher as a silent anticipation fell over the watching audience, a silence only broken with gasps as each new bid was called by the auctioneer, and then applause when Mystic Warrior hammered at $287,500, a world record for Polzin…