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BRICE MARDEN (B. 1938)
Lot 298 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]

Closed18 November 2022

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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.

Pace Gallery, New York
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"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).