Jim Dine - Color & Scale: The Estate of Martha Hummer Bradley New York Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Catalogue Essay

    Martha Hummer Bradley was an avid traveler and art enthusiast whose remarkable collection of contemporary photographs and prints includes some of the most revered artists in the world alongside lesser-known cutting edge practitioners working across media. She enthusiastically embraced photography’s transition from small-format black-and-white prints to vibrant, oversized tableaux and, having moved to London from the United States in the 1980s, championed a new generation of British photographers, including Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Darren Almond. Color & Scale captures Hummer Bradley’s inclusive vision and celebrates her passion for art.

  • Artist Biography

    Jim Dine

    American • 1935

    There's a considerable chance that any given piece of art with a heart has been made by Jim Dine. The artist has been prolific in his 60-plus years of producing works, from large-scale Pop-inflected paintings to emotive and lush collaged works-on-paper. Even while working within a childlike vocabulary, Dine has often been considered alongside rougher painters like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and has surprised critics and audiences by flexing his muscles as an original generator of performance art "Happenings" or towering series of sculptures.

    Dine never fails to surprise at the auction block. His best at-auction works, stemming from the 1960s, often double their pre-auction estimates. His two highest results were $420,000 in 2007 and $418,000 more recently in 2015.

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Lithographs of the Sculpture: The Plant Becomes a Fan

1975
The complete set of five lithographs with varnish, on Natsume paper, with full margins.
Each 36 x 24 1/4 in. (91.4 x 61.6 cm)
Each signed, dated and numbered 35/60 in pencil (there were also 16 artist's proofs), published by Petersburg Press, London.

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for $1,890

Contact Specialist

Caroline Deck
Senior Specialist, Photographs, New York
cdeck@phillips.com

Color & Scale: The Estate of Martha Hummer Bradley

Online Auction 14-21 September 2022