Brice Marden and Jennifer Melby
Zen Study 1
1990
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Physical Qualities
Etching, lift ground aquatint, and aquatint with scraping and burnishing, printed in light beige and black, Sheet: 697 × 903 mm. (27 7/16 × 35 9/16 in.)
Plate: 525 × 694 mm. (20 11/16 × 27 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist, New York, in Honor of Brenda Richardson
Object Number
1993.9.1
1) Tone plate printed in light beige (current color); 2) design plate with re-working of the plate in areas by scraping and burnishing to alter passages of the composition, printed in black. (SH)
The Artist
Jan Howard, BMA, "Contemporary Prints from the Collection," 17 April - 12 May 1996.
'Brice Marden: Recent Drawings and Etchings', exhibition catalogue, Matthew Marks, New York, 1991, nos. 28-33 (earlier states).
Signed: two plates
Inscribed: FACE: (graphite), below image, l.r., 'B Marden 91'. Verso: l.l. corner, (graphite), 'S (arrow up)'; there is one graphite hatch mark extending from each edge, center.
Markings: Whatman
Artist and Publisher
Brice Marden
1937–2022
born Bronxville, NY 1938; died Tivoli, NY 2023
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