Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design
Fri, Jan 28, 2022 01:00AM EST
Lot 31
HUGH MERRILL / Float World (1985 Diptych)
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$400
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Hugh Merrill
(Missouri, b. 1949)
Float World, 1985
Intaglio diptych with chine colle addition
21 3/4" x 33 1/4" (each image)
Pencil-signed, dated, and titled to the bottom margin of the right image, and numbered to the bottom margin of the left image (#34/40). Each is presented behind plexiglass in maple frames that measure 29 1/4" x 40 1/4". Commissioned by the Print Society of the Friends of Art of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, who hold a copy from the edition in their permanent collection.
Hugh Merrill studied under Alex Katz, Robert Motherwell, John Cage, and Gabor Peterdi at Yale College, before becoming a longtime professor of printmaking at the Kansas CIty Art Institute. He has enjoyed a long and celebrated career in the visual arts, with his work held in many permanent museum collections and shown in numerous international exhibitions.
Provenance: From the collection of a Fortune 500 company, acquired from the Nelson Sales & Rental Gallery (Kansas City, MO) in 1990.
Excellent condition. Not removed from the frames.
(Missouri, b. 1949)
Float World, 1985
Intaglio diptych with chine colle addition
21 3/4" x 33 1/4" (each image)
Pencil-signed, dated, and titled to the bottom margin of the right image, and numbered to the bottom margin of the left image (#34/40). Each is presented behind plexiglass in maple frames that measure 29 1/4" x 40 1/4". Commissioned by the Print Society of the Friends of Art of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, who hold a copy from the edition in their permanent collection.
Hugh Merrill studied under Alex Katz, Robert Motherwell, John Cage, and Gabor Peterdi at Yale College, before becoming a longtime professor of printmaking at the Kansas CIty Art Institute. He has enjoyed a long and celebrated career in the visual arts, with his work held in many permanent museum collections and shown in numerous international exhibitions.
Provenance: From the collection of a Fortune 500 company, acquired from the Nelson Sales & Rental Gallery (Kansas City, MO) in 1990.