Diné (Navajo) Painting of Doves by Beatien Yazz [SOLD]

Beatien Yazz was a very talented artist. Collectors are familiar with his style of paintings reflecting on everyday life on the Navajo Reservation in which he generally featured young Navajo boys and girls going about their routine duties or his scenes of animals such as deer and horses. Less familiar are his more unusual paintings such as this one, but it is paintings such as this that illustrate his true talent as an artist.

This pair of Doves is simply but elegantly portrayed. The treatment of the feathers is very well done and the legs are detailed. Very faintly in the background is a display of native grasses above which is an outline of clouds. His standard treatment of having birds fly overhead is here as expected.

Condition: The painting is matted and shrink-wrapped, but not framed. It appears to be in original excellent condition; however, it has not been examined out of the shrink-wrap.

Provenance: This painting is among a collection from the Balcomb family, formerly owners of an art gallery which they closed in 1976.