Special Value Offer: Beatien Yazz Version of a Navajo Feather Dance [SOLD]

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Beatien Yazz, Navajo Nation Painter
  • Category: Paintings
  • Origin: Diné of the Navajo Nation
  • Medium: gouache
  • Size:
    14-1/4” x 16” image;
    20-1/2” x 22-1/4” framed
  • Item # C3619B
  • SOLD

Special Value Offer: This is being offered at a 25% price reduction from $995 to $745.

The Navajo Feather Dance is one that entails a drummer who beats upon an overturned basket to provide the beat for the dancers. To the rhythm of the basket-drum, the dancers begin a dance, usually depicted beating time with a pair of square wood frames, hung with feathers. In this presentation, Beatien Yazz has shown the dancers with feather bustles and dancing with feathers in their hands rather than with frames.  Perhaps there are different versions of the dance.

 

Yazz has shown two male dancers. There can be more dancers, both male and female, but he chose to show only two.  The dancers wear short kilts, concha belts and feathers in their hair and on their arms, in addition to those in their hands and the bustles on their back side.

 

Signature of Beatien Yazz (b. 1928) Little No Shirt - Jimmy ToddyYazz has produced a painting that is meaningful and beautiful and incorporates features of an important Navajo ceremony. His use of strong color in muted tones provides a palette both soft and warm. As is traditional in this style of painting, there are no background elements or ground plane.  The dancers are the focus and are not encumbered with other items in the background. This painting is one of his more ceremonial than secular renditions. 

 

Recommended Reading: Yazz: Navajo Painter by J. J. Brody.  This book is currently not available from Adobe Gallery

Condition: very good condition

Provenance: from the collection of a family from California

Yazz has shown the dancers with feather bustles and dancing with feathers in their hands

Beatien Yazz, Navajo Nation Painter
  • Category: Paintings
  • Origin: Diné of the Navajo Nation
  • Medium: gouache
  • Size:
    14-1/4” x 16” image;
    20-1/2” x 22-1/4” framed
  • Item # C3619B
  • SOLD

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