Emil Bisttram (American, 1895-1976)
Hummingbird Dancer, circa 1933, Taos, NM

Pencil on buff paper
14 x 11 in. (360 x 280 mm.)

Signed
Good condition

Provenance:
Private Collection, New Mexico

SOLD

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A rare and important early-Modernist drawing of a Native American subject, by the Taos master who co-founded in 1938 the pioneering Transcendental Painting Group in Santa Fe.

The drawing is very likely a study from a famous series of Modernist paintings based on New Mexico Pueblo Indian dances which were shown in New York in 1933.