André Butzer - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Metro Pictures, New York

  • Exhibited

    London, Saatchi Gallery, Gesamtkunstwerk- New Art from Germany, 18 November 2011 - 15 April 2012

  • Literature

    Gesamtkunstwerk- New Art from Germany, published by Saatchi Gallery, 2011, p 23
    Germania- New Art from Germany, published by Jonathan Cape, 2008, p 226-272

  • Catalogue Essay

    The unmasked pleasure in the physical act of painting is evidnet in André Butzer's Untitled (2007). A sense of immediacy is articulated through the heavy impasto technique and vivid, almost neon-toned colours. Butzer doodles wildly over dark or light backgrounds in separated, unblended clusters, reminiscent of Joan Mitchell’s abstract expressionist canvases. His embrace of an unapologetically bright and varied paint box is conceptual: "Colour is basically about history. To animate colour is historic in the way that the image will tell us about the future and the past."

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Untitled

2007
oil on canvas
260 x 340 cm (102 3/8 x 133 7/8 in.)

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 ♠†

Sold for £27,500

Contact Specialist
Henry Highley
Head of Day Sale

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

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