Brice Marden and Jennifer Melby
Zen Study 3
1990
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Physical Qualities
Etching, spit bite and lift ground aquatint, and aquatint, Sheet: 700 × 900 mm. (27 9/16 × 35 7/16 in.)
Plate: 529 × 694 mm. (20 13/16 × 27 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist, New York, in Honor of Brenda Richardson
Object Number
1993.9.3
With close examination the print appears to be from a single plate (listed as 2) that has undergone multipe phases of etching (overall aquatint etch with passages of spit bite, and the primary lift ground aquatint etch) (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: clean.
Markings: Whatman
Artist and Publisher
Brice Marden
1937–2022
born Bronxville, NY 1938; died Tivoli, NY 2023
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