Christie’s Poised to Break Brice Marden’s Record With $50M Painting

Essence green and yellow paintingEssence green and yellow paintingBryce Marden, events(2004–2007). Courtesy christy

The auction record of the abstract artist is not expected to be broken when Christie’s spring is introduced.

Painted between 2004 and 2007, events In a statement, Sara Freedland, after the war and Vice President of Christie to contemporary art, said, “The best example is for auction by Bryce Marden.” With an estimate between $ 30 million and $ 50 million, the two-panel work is scheduled to cross the previous artist record of Mardon’s last 30.9 million dollars, established in 2020 with his painting sales in 2020 Supplement.

Marden, who died in August 2023, is known as one of the most visionary figures of contemporary art. After studying at Boston University and Yale School of Art, he made his way in New York City in the 1960s. It was there where he was associated with other abstract artists like Jasper Johns, from whom he met as a guard in the Jewish Museum, and Robert Rouchenberg, who was worked briefly as a studio assistant by Marden. He fast shot for fame for his subtle minimal paintings, which today hang in museums around the world.

events Folves under the famous of Marden Predicted the image of the aircraft garden The series, including three six-panel paintings and three deputy. One of Mardon’s most ambitious and famous projects, Series’ third edition Hanging in the museum of modern art, while its extreme The center is related to Pompeido Paris.


Artist Propitic garden Mardon’s artistic techniques displayed throughout the series are particularly notable. eventsFor example, it not only has a painter’s signature monochromatic composition, but also included his ribbon-like lines-a figure Mardan included his art in his art after starting a study of Asian calligraphy linear in the 1980s. Even the dimensions of painting are important. A numerologist reported that six were their number, Marden chose a 4-by-6-foot canvas because four times six twenty four and two and four were coupled, there are equal to six together.

Painting will make its public debut in February

Despite its importance in Mardon’s Ovre, events Never have been publicly displayed before, and in a private collection since 2007. This will start at the end of this month when it will be displayed in Dubai during the Kala Dubai Art Fair and later shown in Hong Kong and Los Angeles in front of its auction in New York, where the painting will lead Christie. 21st century evening sales.

“Throughout his career, Mr. Mardon demonstrated his permanent commitment to abstraction: each hue chose carefully and deliberately in search of the divine power of every brushstroke painting,” said Freedland. ,events A luxurious and symphonic exploration of tension between the two planner surfaces joined the harmonious resonance, to assume that it is a mediator to breathe. ,

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