Mark Grotjahn

Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

This work is in excellent condition overall. The sheet is hinged verso to the backing board intermittently along the edges. There is a very slight undulation to the sheet visible along the bottom edge. Framed under Plexiglas.
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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,” in Artforum, November 2005, p. 259