About The Work
The present print, hand signed and numbered, is based on Leipzig's original painting, a homage to the legendary modernist sculptor Isaac Witkin, who died suddenly in 2006. A protege of Henry Moore, Witkin is one of the most original and masterful sculptors in the modern era. After creating abstract welded steel works in the 1970's, Witkin began working in bronze, ultimately inventing his own sculptural language, by pouring molten metal onto a flat surface or a sand mold to create abstract shapes, a technique he called "drawing" with bronze, or "action sculpture". Witkin is known as the "sculptor's sculptor" and the "artist's artist" - revered by fellow artists (sculptors and painters alike) and by true art lovers, for his creative courage and his utter lack of commercialism.
Thus, even though Mel Leipzig is an American realist painter and Witkin a South-African born, London-educated abstract sculptor, Leipzig admired Isaac Witkin, and had always wanted to paint the sculptor in his studio and foundry, located on a blueberry farm in Southern New Jersey. However, Leipzig famously paints only living models, and does not work from photographs. So when Witkin died unexpectedly at the age of 69, Leipzig chose instead to paint the sculptor's daughter, posing in front of her father's opus magnus Garden State.
Courtesy of Alpha 137 Gallery
Color Print on Soft Gloss Exhibition Fiber Paper
24.00 x 30.00 in
61.0 x 76.2 cm
Pencil signed and numbered by the artist, from the limited edition of only 20.
About The Work
The present print, hand signed and numbered, is based on Leipzig's original painting, a homage to the legendary modernist sculptor Isaac Witkin, who died suddenly in 2006. A protege of Henry Moore, Witkin is one of the most original and masterful sculptors in the modern era. After creating abstract welded steel works in the 1970's, Witkin began working in bronze, ultimately inventing his own sculptural language, by pouring molten metal onto a flat surface or a sand mold to create abstract shapes, a technique he called "drawing" with bronze, or "action sculpture". Witkin is known as the "sculptor's sculptor" and the "artist's artist" - revered by fellow artists (sculptors and painters alike) and by true art lovers, for his creative courage and his utter lack of commercialism.
Thus, even though Mel Leipzig is an American realist painter and Witkin a South-African born, London-educated abstract sculptor, Leipzig admired Isaac Witkin, and had always wanted to paint the sculptor in his studio and foundry, located on a blueberry farm in Southern New Jersey. However, Leipzig famously paints only living models, and does not work from photographs. So when Witkin died unexpectedly at the age of 69, Leipzig chose instead to paint the sculptor's daughter, posing in front of her father's opus magnus Garden State.
Courtesy of Alpha 137 Gallery
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