Live Auction 1559Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Mark Bradford (B. 1961)
Lot 213

Mark Bradford (B. 1961)

Keep Their Bellies Full

Closed17 October 2014

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GBP 86,500

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Mark Bradford (B. 1961)
Keep Their Bellies Full
acrylic on paper
41½ x 59in. (105.4 x 149.9cm.)
Executed in 2010

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘If something exists on the periphery of culture, it doesn’t necessarily mean it has to exist as peripheral culture. If I choose to pick material that is obviously in the public domain and use it in my studio to produce abstract painting, once I do it belongs to a very different history or myth that has been venerated for a long time. The lines are multiplying; that’s why I always trace my own lines. I do draw, but then I go over the lines with another medium, or go over them with a string. That tracing removes the emotion from the gesture’ (M. Bradford, quoted in Mark Bradford, exh. cat., Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, p. 97).