Brice Marden

Brice Marden
1938-2023
Untitled
Graphite pencil and beeswax on paper.
26 x 26 inches (66 x 66 cm)
Gift of the Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein Collection.
© Brice Marden / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
2014.39
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In this early drawing, Marden combined graphite with beeswax to achieve a rich, saturated surface. The work shows Marden at the crossroads between the two tendencies that dominated artistic production in the United States during the 1960s: the legacy of Abstract Expressionism and the primacy of Minimalism. Although the reduced palette and exploration of geometric shapes relate to the Minimalist aesthetic, the gestural quality of the worked surface evokes an Abstract Expressionist approach.

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Collection of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein (1966).
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