Lot 213
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Mark Bradford (B. 1961)
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Mark Bradford (B. 1961)

Keep Their Bellies Full

Details
Mark Bradford (B. 1961)
Keep Their Bellies Full
acrylic on paper
41½ x 59in. (105.4 x 149.9cm.)
Executed in 2010
Provenance
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.
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Lot Essay

‘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).

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