Sale 2472 - African-American Fine Art, April 5, 2018

127 c DAVID HAMMONS (1943 -  ) The Man Nobody Killed . Color screenprint printed on cardboard, 1986. 280x216 mm; 11x8 1 / 2 inches. Edition of 200. From Cobalt Myth Mechanics, 1986/1987, Eye Magazine, #14 . Published by Eye Publications, New York. While from an edition, each screenprint of The Man Nobody Killed is a unique variation. Each were printed on different found cardboard material, sometimes with additional printed surfaces or collaged material. The subject of the work is Michael Stewart, a New York graffiti artist who died as a result of injuries sustained while in police custody following an arrest by the New York City Transit Police. Another copy of this artist book, a spiral bound periodical, is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. [3,000/5,000]