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[Untitled]
1986.257.1
Date
1944/1945
Medium
Watercolor
,
scrubbing
,
scraping
Support
Watercolor paper
Dimensions
3 1/8 x 22 1/16 in. (7.9 x 56 cm)
Inscription
Lower right in graphite and white paint: Mark Rothko
Estate/Inventory Number
1009.43 [or 1009.44 ]
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986, 1986.257.1. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Photography Credit
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Image Source: Art Resource, NY
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Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970
Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, 1970
Estate of the Artist, 1977–1979
The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986
Exhibitions
60 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 23, 1990 – January 15, 1991.
Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, January 26 – April 4, 1993, cat. 42, as
Untitled
.
Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 4 – September 12, 1993, cat. 42, as
Untitled
.
Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, March 11 – June 4, 1995, cat. 56, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, National Gallery of Art, May 3 – August 16, 1998, cat. 23, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, cat. 23, as
Untitled
.
Expresionismo abstracto: obra sobre papel, Colección The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York
, Fundación Juan March, May 9 – July 2, 2000, cat. 51, as
Sin título
.
Abstract Expressionist Drawings
, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 1, 2007 – February 24, 2008.
Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context
, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 9, 2019 – June 21, 2020, as
Untitled
.
References
Blinken, Donald, et al.
Eliminating the Obstacles Between the Painter and the Observer: The Mark Rothko Foundation, 1976–1986
. New York, 1986: 54.
Mintz Messinger, Lisa.
Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992: 111-114, 116, cat. 42 (color).
Waldman, Diane.
Mark Rothko in New York
. New York, 1994: plate 10 (color).
Mintz Messinger, Lisa.
Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1995: 92, cat. 56 (color).
Weiss, Jeffrey, ed.
Mark Rothko
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: cat. 23 (color).
Mintz Messinger, Lisa.
Expresionismo abstracto: obra sobre papel, Colección The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York
. Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 2000: 111, 153, cat. 51 (color).
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