Lot 91
  • 91

BRICE MARDEN | Suicide Note

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Suicide Note
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 72-3
  • ink on paper
  • 11 3/4 by 7 5/8 in. 29.8 by 19.4 cm.

Provenance

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Brice Marden, September - October 1973

Literature

Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brice Marden, 1975, pp. 24-25, illustrated 
Exh. Cat., London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1975-80, May - June 1981, p. 59, illustrated 

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat intermittently and window matted. The left edge is deckled and there is evidence of pale time staining to the sheet. Under close inspection, there is a slight undulation and soft creasing to the sheet. There are minor, scattered surface accretions particularly along the center left and center right edges. Framed under Plexiglas.
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