Mark Grotjahn

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

This work is in excellent condition overall. The sheet is hinged verso to the backing board along the top edge. There are artist’s pinholes in the top right and bottom right corners of the sheet. There is intermittent lifting along the edges and there is a soft undulation to the sheet. The scattered, faint surface irregularities are inherent to the artist's working method. Framed under glass.
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"With contextual influences ranging widely from the history of geometric modernism — as seen in the works of artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian — to experiments in musical and filmic composition and typographic design, Grotjahn's butterflies playfully blur the once rigorous boundaries between representation and abstraction, between surface and depth, and between the conceptual and the concrete in artistic production."

Douglas Fogle in Exh. Cat., New York, Blum & Poe, Mark Grotjahn Butterfly Paintings, 2014, p. 37