Live Auction 18977Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale
Mark Bradford (b. 1961)
Lot 161

Mark Bradford (b. 1961)

Untitled

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 100,000

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Mark Bradford (b. 1961)
Untitled
mixed media on paper
13 5/8 x 21 7/8 in. (34.6 x 55.6 cm.)
Executed in 2006.

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

Specialist note


The French affichistes had made paintings from torn and defaced commercial ads in the fifties, but Bradford’s merchant posters sing a different and distinctly American song, about people who live on the fringes and make their lives up from day to day.
—C. Tomkins, "What Else Can Art Do? The Many Layers of Mark Bradford's Work", The New Yorker, 15 June 2015