17 Property from a Private Collection Brice Marden Star (for Patti Smith 1972-74 oil and beeswax on canvas, triptych 68 x 45 in. (172.7 x 114.3 cm) Titled and dated "STAR (FOR PATTI SMITH 1972-73" on the reverse of each panel; further signed "B. Marden" on the reverse of the center panel.
Provenance Collection of the artist Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited New York, Bykert Gallery, Brice Marden February 5 - March 1, 1972 Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum, Eight New York Painters, May 10 - June 25, 1972 New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Options and Alternatives: Some Directions in Recent Art, April 4 - May 16, 1974, no. 9 (illustrated) Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Sydney, Art Gallery of South Wales; Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia; Perth, West Australia Art Gallery; City of Auckland Art Gallery, Some Recent American Art, February 12 - November 17, 1974, cat. no. 32, pp. 49-50 (illustrated) New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brice Marden March 7 - May 4, 1975, cat. no. 19, p. 44 (illustrated) Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Oakland, The Oakland Museum; Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum; Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, American Painting of the 1970s, December 8, 1978 - January 2, 1980, p. 40 (illustrated) New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 20 Artists: Yale School of Art 1950 - 1979, January 29 - March 29, 1981, p. 50 (illustrated) Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Connections: Brice Marden March 23 - July 21, 1991, cat. no. 31, pp. 7, 29, 34 (illustrated) New York, C & M Arts, Brice Marden Classic Paintings, March 30 - May 29, 1999, cat. no. 7, n.p. (illustrated) Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Brice Marden Work Books and Series, October 3, 1999 - January 2, 2000 Zurich, Daros Exhibitions, Brice Marden June 14, 2003 - January 4, 2004, cat. no. 6 (illustrated) New York, Museum of Modern Art, Brice Marden A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings, October 29, 2006 - January 15, 2007, cat. no. 37, p. 168 (illustrated) Literature Carter Ratcliff, "New York Letter," Art International, April 20, 1972, p. 31 (illustrated) Lucio Pozzi "Colore e superficie," DATA, Winter 1973, p. 90 (illustrated) Michel Bourel and Sylvie Couderc, "Brice Marden," in Art Minimal II: De la Surface au Plan, exh. cat., Bordeaux: CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, 1986, p. 70 Charles Mortiz, ed., "Brice Marden," Biography, August 1990, p. 43 Michael Kimmelman, "Brice Marden Reveals His Connections," New York Times, April 14, 1991, p. 35 Paul Taylor "Marden's Metamorphosis," Connoisseur, October 1991, p. 108 Klaus Kertess, Brice Marden Drawings and Paintings, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992, p. 83 (illustrated) John Richardson "Brice Marden's Abstract Heart," Vanity Fair, May 1999, p. 201 Mick Brown, "Driven to Abstraction," Daily Telegraph, October 28, 2000, sec. A, pp. 1, 11 Video Brice Marden’s ‘Star (for Patti Smith ’: Aura in the Abstract In the early 1970’s, Brice Marden was exploring the idea of how to make an abstract picture convey significant amounts of emotion and feeling. Introduced to Patti Smith as part of the vibrant downtown New York scene that came to define an entire era, the portrait ‘Star’ aimed to capture some of the energy and fearlessness that Patti herself had set in motion through her music and poetry. Catalogue Essay “The artist is the necromancer, the priest; he does not make something interesting, he makes some thing, a fact, a painting, Art.” Brice Marden January 1973 Brice Marden’s Star (for Patti Smith , 1972-74, is an elegant and luminous portrait of the artist’s close friend and rock star Patti Smith The painting stands as one of the artist’s celebrated abstract “portraits,” many of which are held in important institutions' collections including For Carl Andre 1966 in the Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Dylan Painting, 1966-86 in the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Rendered in minimalist subdued tones, Star (for Patti Smith honors the musician and writer whose musical and poetic output drew on the influences of The Velvet Underground and The Doors, along with French symboli
17 Property from a Private Collection Brice Marden Star (for Patti Smith 1972-74 oil and beeswax on canvas, triptych 68 x 45 in. (172.7 x 114.3 cm) Titled and dated "STAR (FOR PATTI SMITH 1972-73" on the reverse of each panel; further signed "B. Marden" on the reverse of the center panel.
Provenance Collection of the artist Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited New York, Bykert Gallery, Brice Marden February 5 - March 1, 1972 Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum, Eight New York Painters, May 10 - June 25, 1972 New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Options and Alternatives: Some Directions in Recent Art, April 4 - May 16, 1974, no. 9 (illustrated) Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Sydney, Art Gallery of South Wales; Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia; Perth, West Australia Art Gallery; City of Auckland Art Gallery, Some Recent American Art, February 12 - November 17, 1974, cat. no. 32, pp. 49-50 (illustrated) New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brice Marden March 7 - May 4, 1975, cat. no. 19, p. 44 (illustrated) Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Oakland, The Oakland Museum; Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum; Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, American Painting of the 1970s, December 8, 1978 - January 2, 1980, p. 40 (illustrated) New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 20 Artists: Yale School of Art 1950 - 1979, January 29 - March 29, 1981, p. 50 (illustrated) Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Connections: Brice Marden March 23 - July 21, 1991, cat. no. 31, pp. 7, 29, 34 (illustrated) New York, C & M Arts, Brice Marden Classic Paintings, March 30 - May 29, 1999, cat. no. 7, n.p. (illustrated) Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Brice Marden Work Books and Series, October 3, 1999 - January 2, 2000 Zurich, Daros Exhibitions, Brice Marden June 14, 2003 - January 4, 2004, cat. no. 6 (illustrated) New York, Museum of Modern Art, Brice Marden A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings, October 29, 2006 - January 15, 2007, cat. no. 37, p. 168 (illustrated) Literature Carter Ratcliff, "New York Letter," Art International, April 20, 1972, p. 31 (illustrated) Lucio Pozzi "Colore e superficie," DATA, Winter 1973, p. 90 (illustrated) Michel Bourel and Sylvie Couderc, "Brice Marden," in Art Minimal II: De la Surface au Plan, exh. cat., Bordeaux: CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, 1986, p. 70 Charles Mortiz, ed., "Brice Marden," Biography, August 1990, p. 43 Michael Kimmelman, "Brice Marden Reveals His Connections," New York Times, April 14, 1991, p. 35 Paul Taylor "Marden's Metamorphosis," Connoisseur, October 1991, p. 108 Klaus Kertess, Brice Marden Drawings and Paintings, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992, p. 83 (illustrated) John Richardson "Brice Marden's Abstract Heart," Vanity Fair, May 1999, p. 201 Mick Brown, "Driven to Abstraction," Daily Telegraph, October 28, 2000, sec. A, pp. 1, 11 Video Brice Marden’s ‘Star (for Patti Smith ’: Aura in the Abstract In the early 1970’s, Brice Marden was exploring the idea of how to make an abstract picture convey significant amounts of emotion and feeling. Introduced to Patti Smith as part of the vibrant downtown New York scene that came to define an entire era, the portrait ‘Star’ aimed to capture some of the energy and fearlessness that Patti herself had set in motion through her music and poetry. Catalogue Essay “The artist is the necromancer, the priest; he does not make something interesting, he makes some thing, a fact, a painting, Art.” Brice Marden January 1973 Brice Marden’s Star (for Patti Smith , 1972-74, is an elegant and luminous portrait of the artist’s close friend and rock star Patti Smith The painting stands as one of the artist’s celebrated abstract “portraits,” many of which are held in important institutions' collections including For Carl Andre 1966 in the Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Dylan Painting, 1966-86 in the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Rendered in minimalist subdued tones, Star (for Patti Smith honors the musician and writer whose musical and poetic output drew on the influences of The Velvet Underground and The Doors, along with French symboli
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