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A singular cast bronze sculpture by Mark Grotjahn bears the self-referential title *This work is unique.*, its surface animated by the artist's signature painterly touch rendered in vivid, layered color. Grotjahn bridges the worlds of painting and sculpture, applying paint directly to the bronze to create a tension between the solidity of the cast form and the expressive, gestural marks that define his practice. The work asserts its own singularity not only through its title but through the irreproducible interplay of medium and mark-making that characterizes Grotjahn's boundary-defying output.

Medium: painted bronze
Spotted At: Auction House · Phillips

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Contemporary Art Evening Sale

October 14, 2015

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