Adriatics. 1973.
7 sheets Etching and aquatint.
Each signed, dated and numbered. From an edition of 40 copies. On wove paper (with embossing stamp "K"). Images up to: 60.2 x 71.3 cm (23.7 x 28 in). Sheets up to: 81,9 x 91,1 cm (31,88 x 35,82 in).
Printed by Crown Point Press, published by Parasol Press.[MH].

• Marden transforms impressions of nature into the structure of minimal art.
• The artist addresses the relationship between sea and sky in a reduced, graphic form.
• Brice Marden spent much time in Greece and on the Adriatic Sea – the eponym for this work.
• Marden creates an impression of movement with the grid and ever-denser lines.

PROVENANCE: Galerie artek, Helsinki (with the label on five of the frames).
From a German collection (since 2010, Christie's).

LITERATURE: Jeremy Lewinson, Brice Marden Prints 1961-1991. A Catalogue Raisonné, London 1992, no. 22.
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Christie's, London, Auction of Old Masters, Modern & Contemporary Prints, September 15, 2010, lot 192.