The Perfumed Light
Artist
Melissa Zink
1932 Kansas City, Missouri - 2009 Taos, New Mexico
Date1986
Mediumceramic, leather
Dimensions8 × 13 1/2 × 15 in. (20.3 × 34.3 × 38.1 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Patricia Vigil Denson
Object numberPC2012.44.1
DescriptionA sculpture depicting a woman and an iguana inside a rectangular box shrouded with gold curtains. The woman, wearing a pink dress and a yellow head wrapping, sits on the floor and offers a gold apple to the iguana. The iguana wears a crown and a necklace of flowers. Four iguana foot-shaped shoes and a pair of sandals lay on a short set of stairs in front of the figures. A cupboard holding a skull is behind the woman. The interior walls and top of the box feature vine motifs. The entire scene rests on a wood base.On View
Not on view
ca. 1956
ca. 1932
