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BRICE MARDEN (B. 1938)
BRICE MARDEN (B. 1938)
BRICE MARDEN (B. 1938)
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THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS AND DORIS AMMANN
BRICE MARDEN (B. 1938)

Hydra Group IV; Hydra Group V; Hydra Group VI; Hydra Group IX [Four Works]

Details
BRICE MARDEN (B. 1938)
Hydra Group IV; Hydra Group V; Hydra Group VI; Hydra Group IX [Four Works]
(i) Hydra Group IV
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'BM 79' (lower center)
oil and graphite on Japanese clay-coated paper
20 1/2 x 19 1/2 (52 x 49.3 cm.)
Painted in 1979.

(ii) Hydra Group V
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'BM 79' (lower right)
oil and graphite on Japanese clay-coated paper
20 1/2 x 19 1/2 (52 x 49.3 cm.)
Painted in 1979.

(iii) Hydra Group VI
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'BM 79' (lower center)
oil and graphite on Japanese clay-coated paper
20 1/2 x 19 1/2 (52 x 49.3 cm.)
Painted in 1979.

(iv) Hydra Group IX
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'BM 79' (lower center)
oil and graphite on Japanese clay-coated paper
20 1/2 x 19 1/2 (52 x 49.3 cm.)
Painted in 1979.
Provenance
Pace Gallery, New York
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
F. Meyer, "Brice Marden's Design for Stained Glass," Parkett: Collaboration Brice Marden, no. 7, 1986 (illustrated, Hydra Group VI only).
K. Kertess, Brice Marden: Paintings and Drawings, New York, 1992, pp. 178-179 (illustrated, Hydra Group V and Hydra Group IX only).
A. Hindry, "Brice Marden, les rigueurs de la couleur," Beaux-Arts Magazine, June 1993, p. 46 (illustrated, Hydra Group VI only).
J. Siegel, "Brice Marden: Art and Place," Art Today International, vol. 26, 1995, pp. 71 and 74 (illustrated, Hydra Group V and Hydra Group IX only).
D. Fischer, Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992, Bielefield, 1993, p. 176 (illustrated, Hydra Group VI only).
M. Weis, "Papiergesten," Westfälischer Anzeiger, 27 June 2002 (illustrated, Hydra Group VI only).
A.M. Positano, "Brice Marden: Works on Paper 1964-2001, Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica," Art on Paper, September/October 2002, p. 99 (illustrated, Hydra Group VI only).
Exhibited
Dusseldorf, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Brice Marden: New Paintings, April-May 1980.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Brice Marden: Paintings, Drawings, Etchings 1975-1980/Brice Marden: Paintings, Drawings, Prints 1975-80, March-June 1981, pp. 42-43, no. 34 and p. 62, nos. 15b, 15c and 15e (illustrated, Hydra Group IV, Hydra Group V and Hydra Group VI only).
Kunsthalle Basel, Von Twombly bis Clemente: Ausgewählte Werke einer Privatsammlung, July-September 1985, nos. 36-38 and 40.
Liestal, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Brice Marden, Samuel Buri, Ernst Messerli: Projekte für das Basler Münster, December 1990-February 1991, n.p. and p. 44 (Hydra Group V and Hydra Group VI illustrated).
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst and Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Brice Marden, August 1993-May 1994, pp. 36 and 90, nos. 22-24 and 25a (illustrated).
Rome, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica; Turin, Archivio di Stato and Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Brice Marden: Opere su carta 1964-2001 / Brice Marden: Arbeiten auf Papier 1964-2001, December 2001-July 2002, pp. 83, 85, 87 and 89 (illustrated).
Zurich, Daros Exhibitions, Brice Marden, June 2003-January 2004, nos. 29-31 and 34 (illustrated).
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Abstract Vision, February-April 2008.
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Winter Exhibition, December 2011-January 2012.
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Brice Marden, December 2017-January 2018.
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Exhibition R93, June 2018.
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Ich weiss nicht, wer der Künstler ist, ich kenne nur seinen Preis (frei nach René Pollesch), July-September 2018.
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, From WARHOL to TWOMBLY to MARDEN and Back Again, September-December 2018.
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, From WARHOL to TWOMBLY to MARDEN and Back Again (Part 2), January-April 2019.
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Brice Marden, September 2020-March 2021 (Hydra Group V and Hydra Group VI only).

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Lot Essay

"One day I would draw a tree, the next day we would go to the same place and I would draw a sea shell on top of it, and then the next day we would go somewhere else and I would draw rocks, and I would layer it all on top on the same drawings... You are observing nature and yet you are just trying to respond to it. You are not trying to draw a picture of it... It deals with a certain kind of abstraction” (Marden, quoted in J. Lewison, Brice Marden: Prints 1961-1991 A Catalogue Raisonné, exh.cat., London, 1992, p. 48).

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