Lot 86

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne 1994
Private collection, Melbourne

Brice Marden Prints, Niagara Gallery, Melbourne, 17 May - 4 June 1994 (suite, another impression)
Brice Marden: Prints 1973 – 2010, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, 8 December 2011 – 21 January 2012 (suite, another impression)
A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 5 May - 22 September 2019 (suite, another impression)

"Brice Marden emerged as a significant American minimalist painter in the 1960s, but after a series of voyages to Asia and Greece in the 1980s his work began to feature calligraphic, gestural lines instead of monochromatic fields of muted colour. In After Botticelli, Marden adapts the serpentine lines of the Florentine Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli is celebrated for his use of line both to ornament and to convey movement-particularly when representing wind, water, and billowing drapery or hair. Here that line is utilised in a series of abstract etchings, whose twisting, desultory compositions create a sense of kinaesthetic energy."
(Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey)

Other impressions of this print are held in the permanent collections of the Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; Cleaveland Museum of Art, Ohio; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta.