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MELVIN EDWARDS (1937 - ) AND JAYNE CORTEZ (1936 - )
For the BraveYoung Students in Soweto
.
Oil monotype and pen and blue ink on Rives BFK paper, 1984. 762x572 mm; 30x22
1
/
2
inches.
Signed, by both the artist and the poet, and dated in pencil, lower right..
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; thence by descent to the current owner, private
collection, NewYork.
Another example of this collaboration is in the collection of the Library of Congress from the
Robert Blackburn’s PrintmakingWorkshop.According to its website,“sculptor/printmaker Melvin
Edwards and poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez have collaborated on many projects, such as
the 1994 publication
Fragments
, which included photographs from Edwards’
Lynch Fragment
sculpture
series....Edwards and Cortez worked at the PrintmakingWorkshop up through the 1990s.”
[4,000/6,000]
