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**Originally Listed At $250**

Paul Coze (French/Serbian-American, 1903-1974). Portrait of Native American Indian Elder. Black pen and gouache on brown paper, n.d. Signed on right side of drawing. An evocative drawing by ethnographic artist Paul Coze depicting the face of a Native American Indian elder. Coze skillfully portrays the figure with a nearly continuous line of ink and white gouache highlights. Appearing almost sculpted from stone, the angular visage displays high cheekbones, generously lidded eyes, a broad nose, and a straight mouth enveloped by hollow cheeks and prominent nasolabial folds. The band of a headdress surmounts the face, displaying an annular adornment holding a slender sash that falls to his right side. Size of drawing: 7.9" W x 9.9" H (20.1 cm x 25.1 cm) Size of frame: 14.75" W x 16.75" H (37.5 cm x 42.5 cm)

Paul Coze was an anthropologist, artist, and writer that was most notable as a French authority on Native Americans. Between 1928 and 1934, he made four trips across western Canada collecting ethnographic objects for the Musee d'Ethnographie in Paris and the Heye Foundation in New York. He settled in Phoenix Arizona in 1951 and created nine major pieces of public art in the city, most with Native themes.

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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  • Condition: Artist signature on right side of drawing. Set in matte and wood frame with suspension wire on verso for display. A few nicks to frame and tearing with losses to gallery paper on verso. Drawing has not been examined outside of frame but appears to be in overall excellent condition.

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