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Distant Muses *
2000
Color screenprint on Somerset Velvet wove paper
Hand-signed, dated, and numbered in pencil
23 1/2 x 19 1/8 in. (60 x 49 cm), unframed
Edition of 300
SOLD
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Suzhou I *
1998
Etching and aquatint in colors on Somerset wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered
25 7/8 x 18 7/8 in. (65.8 x 47.8 cm), unframed
Edition of 45
SOLD
Brice Marden, whose 40-year-career was the subject of a quietly magnificent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, was born in 1938 in Bronxville, New York. He attended Florida Southern College, Lakeland, from 1957 to 1958 and the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts from 1958 to 1961, where he received his BFA degree. In the summer of 1961, he attended Yale Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut, and went on to enroll at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, receiving an MFA degree in 1963.
It was at Yale that Marden developed the formal strategies that characterized his paintings of the following decades: a preoccupation with rectangular formats and the repeated use of a muted, extremely individualized palette. He has described his early works as highly emotional and subjective, despite their apparent lack of referentiality.
Marden made his first monochromatic single-panel painting in the winter of 1964. It was during this time that his first solo exhibition was presented at the Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Marden spent the spring and summer of 1964 in Paris, where he was inspired by the work of Alberto Giacometti. His first solo show in New York was held at the Bykert Gallery in 1966, and in the fall of that year, he became the general assistant to Robert Rauschenberg. In 1968, he began constructing his paintings with multiple panels. From 1969 to 1974, he was a painting instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
In 1975, he was honored with a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. His work hangs in major museums worldwide and the artist lives and works in New York.
Marden, Brice
2000 Color screenprint on Somerset Velvet wove paper Hand-signed, dated, and numbered in pencil 23 1/2 x 19 1/8 in. (60 x 49 cm), unframed Edition of 300 SOLD1998 Etching and aquatint in colors on Somerset wove paper Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 25 7/8 x 18 7/8 in. (65.8 x 47.8 cm), unframed Edition of 45 SOLDIt was at Yale that Marden developed the formal strategies that characterized his paintings of the following decades: a preoccupation with rectangular formats and the repeated use of a muted, extremely individualized palette. He has described his early works as highly emotional and subjective, despite their apparent lack of referentiality.
Marden made his first monochromatic single-panel painting in the winter of 1964. It was during this time that his first solo exhibition was presented at the Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Marden spent the spring and summer of 1964 in Paris, where he was inspired by the work of Alberto Giacometti. His first solo show in New York was held at the Bykert Gallery in 1966, and in the fall of that year, he became the general assistant to Robert Rauschenberg. In 1968, he began constructing his paintings with multiple panels. From 1969 to 1974, he was a painting instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
In 1975, he was honored with a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. His work hangs in major museums worldwide and the artist lives and works in New York.