Frau. 2002.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower right, signed, dated and titled on verso of the canvas. 250 x 200 cm (98.4 x 78.7 in). [CH].

• André Butzer's large figurative and comic-like droll paintings are his most sought-after works.
• In 2008 part of the exhibition "Bad Painting - good art" at Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna.
• Works by the artist are in possession of, among others, the collections of Charles Saatchi, Ingvild Goetz/Collection Goetz, Munich or the Rubell Museum in Miami
• Characteristic work in bright and pastose colors..

PROVENANCE: Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (verso with the gallery label).
Privat collection Switzerland (acquired from aforementioned in 2003).

EXHIBITION: Chips und Pepsi und Medizin. André Butzer, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, March 21 - May 3, 2003, p. 22 (with color illu.).
Bad Painting - good art, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, June 6 - October 12, 2008, p. 37 (with color illu.).

LITERATURE: Christian Malycha, Sein und Bild. André Butzer 1994-2014, Bielefeld 2017, p. 141 (with illu.)
André Butzer, Förg, in: Hans Werner Holzwarth (editor), Günther Förg. Werke in der Sammlung Friedrichs, Berlin 2019, p. 83.
"To me it is [..] about people understanding that the pictures are abstract, no matter what is in them." André Butzer 2019 in an interview with Larissa Kikol, Kunstforum International