Mark Grotjahn - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

  • Exhibited


    Los Angeles, Richard Telles Fine Art, Plip, Plip, Plippity, September 10 -
    October 8, 2005

  • Catalogue Essay

    Discussions of Grotjahn's work tend to leap quickly into speculation on what lurks (literally and figuratively) behind their surfaces. If there's a plumb line harming through this young artist's oeuvre, it's a love for and deft utilization of the opaque. But Grotjahn's taste for the impermeable is hardly delivered straight from the shoulder; a perverse formalism is his delicious decoy, both an homage to and usurpation of (by now amply deconstructed) modernist tactics. No surprise, then, that Grotjahn has been discussed in terms of a handful of otherwise incommensurable artists (Andy Warhol, Alfred Jensen) and styles (Cubist, Color Field). J. Burton, “Mark Grotjahn: Anton Kern,” Art Forum, December 2003

7

Untitled (Orange Butterfly M02G)

2002

Oil on linen.

48 x 34 in. (121.9 x 86.4 cm).

Signed and dated “Mark Grotjahn 2002 orange
butterfly M02G” on the overlap.

Estimate
$300,000 - 400,000 

Sold for $937,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York