Joe Bradley - New Now New York Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “I’ve always been preoccupied with the sculptural quality of painting, or rather, the fact that the painting is also an object. We tend to ignore the fact that a painting is a physical, three-dimensional thing, and to treat it more as a window, or a portal. Paintings have that power and that quality, they can function like that – but they’re also these rickety things that have a backstage area we’re not privy too. I have this idea that there’s something suspicious about painting – I think that’s part of it. A sculpture isn’t pretending to be anything other than a sculpture – a painting asks you to suspend disbelief, there’s an expectation of an illusion that you’re being treated to. I guess I like to drive home the fact that it’s a thing, made out of cloth and paint.”
    —Joe Bradley

    • Provenance

      Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
      Private Collection (acquired from the above)
      Christie’s, New York, November 13, 2014, lot 408
      Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      New York, Zach Feuer Gallery, Joe Bradley, Anne Craven, Dana Frankfort, Keith Mayerson, July 10–August 24, 2007

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Walker

(i) titled "WALKER" on the reverse
(ii) signed, titled and dated "Joe Bradley 2007 WALKER" on the stretcher
(iii, iv) titled "WALKER" on the stretcher

acrylic on canvas, in 4 parts
smallest 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (36.2 x 26 cm)
largest 62 x 13 1/8 in. (157.5 x 33.3 cm)
overall 114 1/2 x 33 in. (290.8 x 83.8 cm)

Painted in 2007.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen
Head of Sale, New Now
212 940 1207
asemjen@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 8 March 2023