Live Auction 16979Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)
Lot 841 Property from a Private West Coast Collection

Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)

Untitled (Double Butterfly)

Closed16 May 2019

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USD 187,500

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Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)
Untitled (Double Butterfly)
signed twice and dated 'Mark Grotjahn 2004' (on the reverse)
colored pencil on paper
24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.3 cm.)
Executed in 2004.

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).