Brice Marden

Untitled

1986

Centered abstract etching shows intersecting diagonal and vertical lines forming geometric shapes.
Centered abstract etching shows intersecting diagonal and vertical lines forming geometric shapes.

Brice Marden, Untitled, 1986. Aquatint and drypoint, sheet: 19 1/2 × 15 15/16 in. (49.5 × 40.5 cm) Plate: 8 × 6 7/8 in. (20.3 × 17.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Asher B. Edelman and The List Purchase Fund 87.35.25. © Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1986

Classification
Prints

Medium
Aquatint and drypoint

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 1/2 × 15 15/16 in. (49.5 × 40.5 cm) Plate: 8 × 6 7/8 in. (20.3 × 17.5 cm)

Accession number
87.35.25

Edition
12/45

Publication
Printed by Jennifer Melby; published by Peter Blum Editions, New York/Zurich

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from Asher B. Edelman and The List Purchase Fund

Rights and reproductions
© Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York

API
artworks/5834

Part of a series:
Etchings to Rexroth
25 works

Nine abstract black ink marks arranged in a three-by-three grid on white paper.
Two tall angular black ink sketches with thin connecting lines centered on a white sheet.
Abstract black ink shapes and thin lines scattered inside a small central square on white paper.
Small square of black abstract ink marks scattered on a large white sheet.
A square of black abstract ink marks and calligraphic strokes centered on white paper.
Centered square of black gestural marks arranged in three rows on a large white sheet.
Abstract black ink lines and splatters form looping, intersecting shapes centered on a white page.
Centered abstract etching showing black triangular shapes and tangled lines on white paper.
Black ink lines and splatters form an abstract web inside a centered square on white paper.
Black abstract ink sketches of folded paper shapes arranged inside a small centered square on white paper.


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