Diné (Navajo) Original Painting of Porcupines at Night [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 delicate renditions of scenes such as this one that shows a pair of porcupines at night scavenging among the plants. His treatment of the plant stalks is delicate in presentation. His use of colors in the warm fall spectrum presented on black artist board further adds to the delicacy of the work.

Yazz apparently thought that the purchaser of this painting would also like to purchase a companion piece that we have presented as our Item #C2962S, also showing a porcupine, but this time it is in a pumpkin patch.

Condition: The painting is in original excellent condition. It has not been framed, only shrink-wrapped.

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