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THBMyron Melnick
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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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LiveOct 13, 2022
Highlights Include: Works by Afro Basaldella, Milton Avery, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali. Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Yousuf Karsh, Big Bird by Birger Kaipiainen, and Little Kickapoo by Sam Gilliam. Contemporary glass by Gio Ponti for Venini, bronzes from The Estate of Malvina Hoffman, Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
(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
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