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[Untitled]
Date
1959
Medium
Oil
Support
Watercolor paper
Watermark
Whatman 1958
: J WHATMAN 1958
Dimensions
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
2110.68
Collection
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel
. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970
Mary Alice Rothko, New York, 1970
Estate of Mary Alice Rothko, New York, 1970–1977
Estate of the Artist, 1977–1988
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel, 1988
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway, May 16 – September 22, 2024.
References
Rothko Prizel, Kate, Christopher Rothko, Alexander Nemerov, et al.
Mark Rothko
. New York, 2022: plate 192 (color).
Greenhalgh, Adam.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023: 29, 184, plate 57 (color), 30-31 (color detail).
Wilkin, Karen. “Panoramic Rothko: On Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.”
The New Criterion
42, no. 7 (March 2024): 48 (color).
Remarks
The number assigned during Rothko’s inventory of 1968/1969 indicates a creation date of 1968 for this work. Material and stylistic comparison with similar works, however, suggests that it was more likely made in 1959.
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