Gert and Uwe Tobias | Untitled (Schmetterling)

TOBIAS, GERT AND UWE
1973 Brasov/Romania

Title: Untitled (Schmetterling).
Date: 2010.
Techinque: Colour woodcut on strong vellum.
Depiction Size: 240 x 184cm.
Sheet Size: 246 x 195cm.
Notation: Monogrammed, inscribed, dated and numbered verso lower: GUT/1645 2010 1/2.
Number: 1/2.
Frame: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.

The two copies of the woodcut vary slightly in colour and thus have a unique character.

Provenance:
- Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
- Mareen Paley, London
- Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
- Private collection Berlin

Exhibitions:
- GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague 2011

Literature:
- Cf. exhib.-cat. Gert & Uwe Tobias, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 12.3.-13.6.2011, Zwolle/Cologne 2011, cat. no. 62, ill.

- Typical surrealist imagery of the artist duo
- Clear art-historical references place the work in a cultural-historical tradition
- Unique character.