Brice Marden Art
American, 1938-2023
Acclaimed American artist Brice Marden worked for decades in abstract mode, creating lush, monochromatic multiple-panel paintings and notebooks full of mesmerizing drawings that are imbued with the lyricism of calligraphy. He was deemed a master of minimalism.
“Ultimately, I’m using the painting as a sounding board for the spirit,” Marden once said. “You can be painting and go into a place where thought stops — where you can just be and it just comes out.”
Marden received his BFA from Boston University College of Fine Arts in 1961 and his MFA from Yale University’s School of Art in 1963. Afterward, the Bronxville, New York, native moved back to New York City. There, he was exposed to the work of Jasper Johns while he was working as a guard at the Jewish Museum and later Robert Rauschenberg’s art when he became Rauschenberg’s studio assistant.
Apart from these iconic artists and the Abstract Expressionist movement, Marden’s inspirations were numerous and broad-ranging: trips to the Hydra islands in Greece beginning in the early 1970s (he kept a home there), Baroque masters like Francisco Goya and Chinese stone carvings from the late eighth century. Each of these influences yielded a milestone in Marden’s career, whether he created a revered series of paintings or incorporated a new technique or approach in a practice that had been otherwise evolving for years.
Marden is also known for having experimented with the tools he used to paint his networks of colorful, rhythmic lines. Sometimes he replaced brushes with sticks, dipping their ends in ink and making art that references Chinese calligraphy. In his early days, Marden was also known to paint with kitchen spatulas. His dedication to gesture and line was at the heart of his practice.
Marden’s work can be found in the collections of the Tate Britain, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and other institutions.
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Artist: Brice Marden
Distant Muses
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden
Distant Muses
2000
Screenprint
23 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches; 60 x 49 cm
Edition of 300
Signed, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto)
Frame available upon request
Available from Matthew Marks...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brice Marden Art
Materials
Screen
Brice Marden in London (hand signed) Gagosian Gallery print Minimalist abstract
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden in London (Hand signed), 2017
Offset lithograph poster. Hand signed by Brice Marden
Signed in black marker by Brice Marden on the fron...
Category
2010s Minimalist Brice Marden Art
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Lana 2
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden
Lana 2
1966
Screenprint on paper
20 x 24 inches; 51 x 61 cm
Edition of 11
Signed, titled, and numbered in graphite (lower recto)
This silkscreen was printed by Brice...
Category
1960s Minimalist Brice Marden Art
Materials
Screen
Celadon Muse
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden
Celadon Muse
2003
Two color etching / one color lithograph
22 x 30 inches; 56 x 76 cm
Edition of 45
Signed, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto)
Frame available...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Brice Marden Art
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
Nevis Letter
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden
Nevis Letter
2009
Etching
30 x 22 1/2 inches; 76 x 57 cm
Edition of 45
Signed, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto)
Frame available upon request
Available from Matthew Marks...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Brice Marden Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Edition size: 15;
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
1980s Minimalist Brice Marden Art
Materials
Screen
Elevation Exhibition print (Hand Signed by Brice Marden) Minimalist lithograph
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden
Elevation print (Hand Signed by Brice Marden), 2019
Offset lithograph. Hand Signed by Brice Marden
Boldly signed in black marker by Brice Marden on the front
24 × 34 3/4 inches
Provenance:
Acquired from Gagosian gallery
Publisher:
Gagosian Gallery, NY
Unframed
Produced in 2019 on the occasion of the exhibition "Brice Marden: It reminds me of something, and I don’t know what it is." at Gagosian. This signed example was acquired directly from Gagosian gallery before they sold out.
About Brice Marden:
Ultimately I’m using the painting as a sounding board for the spirit. . . . You can be painting and go into a place where thought stops—where you can just be and it just comes out. . . . I present it as an open situation rather than a closed situation.
—Brice Marden
Brice Marden (1938–2023) continuously refined and extended the traditions of lyrical abstraction. Experimenting with self-imposed rules, limits, and processes, and drawing inspiration from his extensive travels, Marden brought together the diagrammatic formulations of Minimalism, the immediacy of Abstract Expressionism, and the intuitive gesture of calligraphy in his exploration of gesture, line, and color.
Born in Bronxville, New York, Marden received an MFA from Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture, where his teachers included the painters Alex Katz and Jon Schueler. After graduation he worked as a guard at the Jewish Museum in New York. There, during a 1964 Jasper Johns retrospective, Marden studied Johns’s early works extensively and considered them in relation to the Baroque masters he has long admired, such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco Goya, and Diego Velázquez. Marden’s paintings from the 1960s include subtle, shimmering monochromes in gray tones, sometimes assembled into multipanel works, in a manner similar to the black paintings and White Paintings of Robert Rauschenberg, who hired Marden as a studio assistant in 1966.
A trip to Greece in the early 1970s led Marden to create the Hydra paintings (1972), which capture the turquoise hues of the Mediterranean, and Thira (1979–80), a painting composed of eighteen interconnected panels inspired by the shadows and geometry of ancient temples. To heighten the effect of each color, plane, and brushstroke, Marden developed the unique process of adding beeswax and turpentine to oil paint and applying the mixture in many thin layers. Marden employed this technique for the Grove Group paintings (1972–76)—exhibited at Gagosian’s Madison Avenue gallery in New York in 1991, along with related works—and the Red Yellow Blue paintings...
Category
2010s Minimalist Brice Marden Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Brice Marden -- Tiles
By Brice Marden
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Brice Marden
Tiles, 1979
Etching with aquatint, on Somerset satin paper
Edition 5 / 50 lower left
Hang signed and dated lower right
Image size 20 x 20 cm
Sheet size 75 x 57 cm
Refer...
Category
1970s Brice Marden Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Matthew Marks gallery poster: Attendants Bears and Rocks, Signed by Brice Marden
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden
Attendants, Bears and Rocks (Hand Signed by Brice Marden), 2002
Offset Lithograph Poster
Hand signed boldly in black marker by Brice Marden on the front
17 × 22 inches
U...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Brice Marden Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Permanent Marker
Limited Edition lithographic poster, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (Framed)
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden
Limited Edition lithographic poster, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (Framed), 1993
Offset Lithograph
Limited edition of 500
Publisher
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Category
1990s Minimalist Brice Marden Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Print of Brice Marden's studio (hand signed by Brice Marden), Nan Goldin photo
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Brice Marden's Studio
Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Brice Marden in 2015)
This print was published on the occasion of Brice Marden's 1996 exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery in Chelsea, New York City. The image is based on Nan Goldin's 1995 photograph of Marden working in his studio. The print was signed by Brice Marden for the present owner.
A collectors item when hand signed!
Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by the present gallery
About Brice Marden:
Ultimately I’m using the painting as a sounding board for the spirit. . . . You can be painting and go into a place where thought stops—where you can just be and it just comes out. . . . I present it as an open situation rather than a closed situation.
—Brice Marden
Brice Marden (1938–2023) continuously refined and extended the traditions of lyrical abstraction. Experimenting with self-imposed rules, limits, and processes, and drawing inspiration from his extensive travels, Marden brought together the diagrammatic formulations of Minimalism, the immediacy of Abstract Expressionism, and the intuitive gesture of calligraphy in his exploration of gesture, line, and color.
Born in Bronxville, New York, Marden received an MFA from Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture, where his teachers included the painters Alex Katz and Jon Schueler. After graduation he worked as a guard at the Jewish Museum in New York. There, during a 1964 Jasper Johns retrospective, Marden studied Johns’s early works extensively and considered them in relation to the Baroque masters he has long admired, such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco Goya, and Diego Velázquez. Marden’s paintings from the 1960s include subtle, shimmering monochromes in gray tones, sometimes assembled into multipanel works, in a manner similar to the black paintings and White Paintings of Robert Rauschenberg, who hired Marden as a studio assistant in 1966.
A trip to Greece in the early 1970s led Marden to create the Hydra paintings (1972), which capture the turquoise hues of the Mediterranean, and Thira (1979–80), a painting composed of eighteen interconnected panels inspired by the shadows and geometry of ancient temples. To heighten the effect of each color, plane, and brushstroke, Marden developed the unique process of adding beeswax and turpentine to oil paint and applying the mixture in many thin layers. Marden employed this technique for the Grove Group paintings (1972–76)—exhibited at Gagosian’s Madison Avenue gallery in New York in 1991, along with related works—and the Red Yellow Blue paintings...
Category
2010s Minimalist Brice Marden Art
Materials
Pencil, Lithograph, Offset
Brice Marden, Etching for Parkett - Signed Print, Minimalism, Abstract Art
By Brice Marden
Located in Hamburg, DE
Brice Marden (American, b. 1938)
Etching for Parkett, 1986
Medium: Sugar lift and aquatint on Rives BFK, bound in Parkett journal no. 7
Dimensions: 25.5 x 21 cm
Edition of 100: Hand-...
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20th Century Minimalist Brice Marden Art
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Lana 2
By Brice Marden
Located in New York, NY
Frame size: 28 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches
Printer: Chiron Press, New York
Publisher: The Artist
Signed, titled, and numbered, lower margin
Category
1960s Minimalist Brice Marden Art
Materials
Screen
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