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Spring 2026 | Session I (Lots 1-195)

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Lot 168

Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) 40 x 30 inches

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000
Starting Bid
$22,500

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $100
$2,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000
Artist: Fritz Scholder Title: American Businessman Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 40 x 30 inches Signed: Signed lower middle Framed/Base: 43 x 33 inches This lot's overall appearance is Excellent. For more details please view the attached Condition Report.

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Overall Dimensions
Height: 43.00
Width: 33.00

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Provenance:
Larsen Art Auction, Scottsdale, AZ, 2013
Private collection, Michigan
 
Luiseño painter Fritz Scholder worked on the leading edge of contemporary Western art, which occasionally put him at odds with more traditional styles. Never has that been more apparent than here with American Businessman, an audacious image of a suited figure in a Christ-like pose. Scholder didn’t invent modernism in the West, but he certainly pushed it further than others, and did so with artwork that explored the people and traditions that were then, and still today, iconic pieces of the American West.