Live Auction 2599Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)
Lot 401Works from the Douglas S. Cramer Collection

Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)

Untitled (Black and Canary Yellow Butterfly)

Closed15 November 2012

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USD 482,500

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Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)
Untitled (Black and Canary Yellow Butterfly)
signed twice and titled 'Untitled (Black + Canary Yellow Butterfly) 698 M. Grotjahn MARK GROTJAHN' (on the reverse)
graphite and colored pencil on paper
47 7/8 x 40 in. (121.6 x 101.6 cm.)
Drawn in 2008.

Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"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..."
(M. N. Holte, "Mark Grotjahn," Artforum, November 2005, p. 259).