Rug Dancer
Kyrate Tuvahoema
- Savvy Price $950.00
- Gallery Price $1,500.00
- Title
- Rug Dancer
- Artist
- Kyrate Tuvahoema
- Medium
- Gouache (opaque watercolor) on warm tan paper
- Paper size
- 9 1/2" height X 6" width
- Frame
- Float mounted against black mat board, regular glass, black finished wood molding
- Frame size
- 15" height X 11 7/8" width
- Signed
- "K. Tuvahoema Hopi" at viewer's lower right
- Date of creation
- Prior to 1942
- Condition
- Fair to good, due to mild staining below and beside the figure
- Provenance
- RF
- About The Rug Dancer
Tuvahoema's brief lifespan of just 28 years contributed to the relative scarcity of the artist's paintings.
- About Kyrate Tuvahoema
- (1914-1942) Hopi painter known for his depictions of katsina figures.Tuvahoema's paintings are in the collections of the Museum of American Indian (New York, Heye Foundation) and in the Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
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