Final bid: $1050
Thank you to all the bidders!
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Background
One of the things I love most about the model horse industry is that I get so many opportunities to work with other artists. I enjoy the synergy that comes from these kinds of interactions. So when Joan Berkwitz suggested that Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig and I combine our planned trips to the Pour Horse Factory, I was game. In the course of that first gathering, we learned that all three of us shared an affinity for good food and fun conversation. We also learned that good things happened when we worked together!
That was six or seven years ago, and we’ve done several projects since then. The claybody customs that I am currently working on are the latest of those projects. Sarah has taken some of the older Pour Horse molds, and changed them while the clay was still wet. Those were then fired, and half sent to Joan to glaze and half sent to me, so that we could finish them. Sarah has inscribed a number on the belly of each piece as it was created, to record where each piece fits in the collection. At the moment, ten of these pieces have been created by Sarah. Two have been finished (and previously auctioned) by Joan Berkwitz and one as been finished by me.
Dixon – Claybody #7
As a finisher, I have found each of these pieces to be a joy to glaze. The pieces have a great deal of surface detail that catch the glaze beautifully. With each piece, I have tried to select colors that both compliment the individual horse, and that allow me to play up what makes them special.
In the case with Dixon, I wanted a deep color that I could place along his neck – particularly on the side he faced – to highlight how his skin wrinkled with the turn of his head. I also wanted to use a color with some mealy tendencies, so I could accentuate the tufts of fur inside his ears. I also wanted a mane color I could streak with color to enhance the movement there. So Dixon became a red silver tobiano. (His name, in fact, comes from Earl Dixon, an early breeder of Shetland Ponies, who was the first to systematically breed for the color, and whose ponies did much to popularize the color with the public.) I suspect many will mistake him for a liver chestnut tobiano, but in person his near-black hocks and ear lining, as well as the dark roots in his mane and tail, give him away for what he truly is. He is gloss finished.Auction Information
Bidding will open for "Dixon" on Wednesday, March 14, and will continue until 9:00 pm EST on Saturday, March 17, 2007. Bids may be sent via email to Lesli Kathman, or by phone at (704) 548-9308. The current bid will appear at the top of this page, and will be updated as needed until Saturday evening.
Bids will be raised in $5 increments up to their limit. If you are outbid, you will be notified either by email or phone (please let me know which you prefer). In the case of a tie bid, the earlier bid will be considered to have precedence. There is no reserve on this auction, and his final price will include shipping and insurance.
