Brice Marden, Jennifer Melby
Zen Study 4
1990
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Brice Marden, Jennifer Melby
Zen Study 4
1990
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)
Publication References
'Brice Marden: Recent Drawings and Etchings', exhibition catalogue, Matthew Marks, New York, 1991, nos. 28-33 (earlier states).
The Artist
Lewison, Jeremy. Brice Marden: Prints 1961-1991. Millbank, London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1992, cat. #43, p. 164.
Signed: two plates
Inscribed: FACE: (graphite), below image, l.r., 'B Marden 91'. VERSO: clean.
Markings: Whatman