Mark Grotjahn - Under the Influence New York Monday, March 31, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Exhibited

    New York, The Drawing Center, Selections Winter, January 9 - February 14, 1998
     

  • Literature


    M. Grotjahn, Mark Grotjahn: Drawings, Ostfildern, 2006 p. 60 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay


    Given the provocative dissonance between expressive “matter” and analytical “mind,” these marks compete with the linear configurations to be the key signifying element. One imagines the artist bearing down on the pencil with earnest, concentrated focus, as if in answer to some urgent necessity. The impasto-like “weightiness” of the marks suggest that that urgent necessity might be to establish a dialogue with the early, objectlike paintings of Jasper Johns and Frank Stella, or possibly with Richard Serra’s expressively “weighty” monochrome drawings.
    Libby Lumpkin, Mark Grotjahn: Drawings, Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2005

17

Untitled (Three-Tiered Perspective)

1997
Colored pencil on paper.
24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.3 cm).
Signed and dated "Mark Grotjahn 1997" on the reverse.

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for $97,000

Under the Influence

31 Mar 2008, 10am & 2pm
New York