Modern + Contemporary + Design | October 13, 2022
Thu, Oct 13, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 47
Myron Melnick
Estimate: $300 - $500
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(American, born 1953)
Zarba, five canoe shaped pieces, signed and dated on back "Zarba/1988/Melnick", burnished clay, hand cast paper, and natural pigments, 83-5/8 x 13 x 11 in.
Note: Reproduced in Colorado "State of the Art" 1989 catalog p. 34.
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: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado "State of the Art" 4/15-6/4/89; Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6/14-10/10/89; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen 10/21-10/29/89 .
Provenance: Handcrafters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Private Collection, New York
Condition
loss to paint, fraying and tearing to edges, scattered cracking to bodies; red canoe with design with large tear to body
