Mark Grotjahn

Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Richard Gray Gallery, New York/Chicago
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2008

Dallas Museum of Art, Private Universes, May - August 2009

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright and vivid. There is evidence of light wear and handling, resulting in some scattered graphite smudges and surface abrasions, all of which appear to be intended by the artist and inherent to the artist's working method. The sheet is hinged verso to the matte, intermittently along the edges. Framed under glass.
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"The butterfly has become to Mark Grotjahn what the target is to Kenneth Noland, the zip was to Barnett Newman, and the color white is to Robert Ryman. Grotjahn's abstracted geometric figure is suitably elusive. In fact, the more familiar it becomes, the more he refines its ability to surprise and, perhaps paradoxically, takes it further away from actual butterflyness." Michael Ned Holte ("Mark Grotjahn," Artforum, November 2005, p. 259)