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André Butzer (b. 1973)
Untitled
signed and dated 'A. Butzer '07' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
133 7/8 x 102 ½in. (340 x 260.3cm.)
Painted in 2007

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.

Literature

M. Holborn (ed.), Germania: New Art from Germany, London 2008, p. 234 (illustrated in colour, p. 235)

Exhibited

London, Saatchi Gallery, Gestamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, 2011-2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 27).

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Lot Essay

‘Gray is the great potency of all colours. It’s obviously not compared to what people have tried to make it out to be, the colour of nothing, the big zero or something stupid like that. No, it is the destination of color, like gold, flesh and silver are destinations of colour, and all of these together, they combine and preserve color in order to let it really shine.’
(A. Butzer, quoted in J. Newsom, ‘Focus Germany, Interview with Andre Butzer and John Newsom’, in Flash Art, Issue 280, October 2011, p. 81

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