MARK GROTJAHN | Untitled (Black and Cream Butterfly)

Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

This work is in excellent condition overall. The sheet is hinged on the reverse to the backing board. The scattered, faint surface irregularities are inherent to the artist's working method. Framed under Plexiglas.
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“Grotjahn’s abstractions are, in relation to traditional pictorial modes, a matter of having your cake and eating it too, of experiencing vertiginous spatial illusions only to be brought back to the level ground of modernist flatness…” Robert Storr, Exh. Cat., London, Gagosian Gallery, Mark Grotjahn, 2009, pp. 4-5