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Grimes | "Untitled (Notebook Drawing #8)" Signed & Maccarone-Authenticated Ink on Paper (2006-2008)
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Category:Memorabilia / Music Memorabilia
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An original ink on paper drawing by Grimes (Claire Boucher), titled Untitled (Notebook Drawing #8) and dated 2006-2008, authenticated by Maccarone gallery, Los Angeles, via a signed Certificate of Authenticity dated February 28, 2021. The work is presented in its original black frame with white mat. 8.5 x 11 in.
Historical Context
Grimes (born Claire Elise Boucher, 1988) is a Canadian musician, producer, and visual artist. The period 2006-2008 predates her emergence as a recording artist and represents the formative years of her creative development — when she was working across music, writing, and visual art without a public profile.
The notebook drawing series from this period provides an unusually intimate window into her visual imagination before the artistic identity she would later bring to her music, album artwork, and public persona was fully formed.
Grimes has been represented as a visual artist alongside her music career, with her drawings, digital artworks, and paintings receiving gallery attention. The Notebook Drawing series — of which this is number 8 — documents a sustained private visual practice that preceded and informs the aesthetic language of her later public work. The title's numbering within a series indicates this was among a cohort of works identified and authenticated together, suggesting deliberate archival recognition of the drawings as an artistic body of work.
Maccarone was a contemporary art gallery with spaces in New York and Los Angeles, founded by Michele Maccarone, known for representing and exhibiting prominent figures across art, music, and culture. The gallery's authentication of this work places it within the formal art market rather than purely within music memorabilia.
Description
The work depicts a fantastical crowned fish or sea creature rendered in confident, energetic ink line work with selective color accents. The creature faces forward with its mouth open wide, revealing multiple rows of jagged teeth and a long tongue. Its body is covered in scales and bordered with spiky dorsal projections. It wears a gold crown bearing red jeweled accents. Its eyes are mismatched — one blue, one red — contributing to the work's expressively unsettling character. Color is applied selectively: a teal-green wash across the body, gold and red on the crown, and pink and red tones within the open mouth. The composition fills the page and is executed with the directness and confidence characteristic of work made for personal rather than public purposes.
Specifications
· Artist: Grimes (Claire Boucher)
· Title: Untitled (Notebook Drawing #8)
· Date: 2006-2008
· Medium: Ink on paper
· Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 in.
· Framing: Black frame, white mat (included)
· Condition: No notable condition issues
Provenance
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Maccarone gallery (300 South Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90033), signed by Grimes and dated February 28, 2021. The work is signed by Grimes twice — on the verso label affixed to the back of the frame, and on the Certificate of Authenticity — providing dual signature documentation directly on the object and on its accompanying authentication. The COA states: "This document certifies that the artwork described below is an authentic work by Grimes." It further states: "Only this original signed Certificate of Authenticity can serve to authenticate this work. The certificate must accompany the work through all transfers of ownership as it documents its authenticity. All requests for loans should be addressed to the artist c/o Maccarone. The work shall not be reproduced, exhibited, or published without the written consent of the artist."
The COA includes a printed reproduction of the work and lists the full work description: Grimes / Untitled (notebook drawing #8) / 2006-2008 / Ink on paper / 8.5 x 11 in, 21.6 x 27.9 cm.
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