Brice Marden and Jennifer Melby
Zen Study 4
1990
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching and lift ground aquatint with scraping and burnishing, Sheet: 696 × 903 mm. (27 3/8 × 35 9/16 in.)
Plate: 527 × 691 mm. (20 3/4 × 27 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist, New York, in Honor of Brenda Richardson
Object Number
1993.9.4
The plate for this state/print has undergone multiple etches, with an etch creating the primary, darker deign and an additional grounding and lighter etch to create additional passages that appear fainter black. Extensive additional reworking of the plate through scraping and burnishing to remove/alter areas of the composition is visible throughout (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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