Art & Design

Sale 123 Lot 54

Mark Handforth
(American, b. 1969)
blackbirdyellowbird, 2011
color screenprint
signed and dated upper left
edition of 23
59″ x 44″

Provenance:
Museum of Contemporary Art Benefit Auction, Chicago, Illinois, 2011

Catalog Note:
Mark Handforth is an alumnus of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s front plaza, where in 2011 he debuted a group of exuberant new sculptures. He also made the museum a limited edition of screenprints, such as this, each of which is unique in the arrangement of yellow and black coat hanger forms. He has used that shape in a number of giant sculptures, recognizing that a coat hanger is the material that sculptors often turn to first to sketch out a new idea.

Frame: 63 1/2″ x 47 1/2″
Not examined out of frame. Overall good condition.