Modern + Contemporary + Design | October 13, 2022
Thu, Oct 13, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 45
Myron Melnick
Estimate: $300 - $500
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(American, born 1953)
Zenak, four boat form pieces, signed and dated on back "Zenak/Melnick 1989" and numbered, burnished clay, hand cast paper, and natural pigments, white with black design, 74 x 22 x 10 in.
Note: Seen in the "Colorado 1990" catalog p. 86-87.
Melnick started to experiment with paper in the late 1970s: "I was making these thin ceramic plates, and they were a little too fragile sometimes, and someone gave me some paper pulp and I made some plates, and they took me a long time to finish. I rubbed some ceramic materials into the paper, and it stuck to the paper, and it was rich, and I was thinking, this is the way to go." Thus began Melnick's nearly thirty-year career working with paper, either cast into sculptural forms or providing the basis for his monotypes.
Exhibitions: Denver Art Museum, "Colorado 1990", April 28-June 24, 1990 .
Provenance: Handcrafters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Private Collection, New York
Condition
loss to paint, fraying and tearing to edges
