Live Auction 20097Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
MARK GROTJAHN (B. 1968)
Lot 330 IMAGE WORLD: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

MARK GROTJAHN (B. 1968)

Untitled (Yellow Cosco VI Mask M40.m)

Closed12 November 2021

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USD 250,000

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MARK GROTJAHN (B. 1968)
Untitled (Yellow Cosco VI Mask M40.m)
signed ?partially ?'MARK PETER' (on the left side edge); signed again partially 'GROTJAHN' (on the right side edge); dated '3.28.16' (on the reverse)
painted bronze
59 1⁄2 x 33 1⁄4 x 36 1⁄2 in. (151.1 x 84.5 x 92.7 cm.)
Executed in 2016.

Gagosian Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016

Specialist note

Grotjahn is not an artist obsessed with positing a wholly unprecedented ‘concept ‘ of art, but rather is concerned with teasing nuanced experience out of existing concepts or constructs according to the opportunities presented by a specific, well-calculated conceit. Nor is he really preoccupied with Ezra Pound’s mandate to ‘make it new’; rather he wants to make it vivid, and applies all of his impressive skill to doing just that.
– Robert Storr (R. Storr, “LA Push-Pull/Po-Mo-Stop-Go,” in Mark Grotjahn, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, London, 2009, p. 6)