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Mark Grotjahn
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description
- Mark Grotjahn
- Untitled (Black Yellow Red Pink Cream and White Butterfly Drawing)
- signed and dated 2008 on the reverse of the right sheet; each inscribed A, B, C respectively on the reverse
- colored pencil on paper, in 3 parts
- Each: 20 by 16 in. 50.8 by 40.6 cm.
Provenance
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2008
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2008
Condition
This work is in very good condition overall. The scattered spots where the surface of the paper has been abraded appear intentional and inherent to the artist's working method. Each sheet is hinged verso to the matte, intermittently along the edges and framed under Plexiglas.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"Grotjahn's abstractions are, in relation to traditional pictorial modes, a matter of having your cake and eating it too, of experiencing vertiginous spatial illusions only to be brought back to the level ground of modernist flatness-only then to have the picture plane once again yield to the probing eye like the panel of a screen thrown out of kilter by a groping hand." - Robert Storr (Exh. Cat., London, Gagosian Gallery, Mark Grotjahn, 2009, pp. 4-5)