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[Untitled]
461.86
Date
c. 1946
Medium
Watercolor
,
ink
,
scrubbing
,
scraping
Support
Watercolor paper
Dimensions
40 3/4 x 27 1/16 in. (103.3 x 68.7 cm)
Inscription
Verso: MARK ROTHKO
Estate/Inventory Number
1007.45
Collection
The Museum of Modern Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 461.86. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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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 Museum of Modern Art, 1986
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 27, 1978 – January 14, 1979, cat. 50, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
, Walker Art Center, April 22 – June 10, 1979, cat. 50, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 10 – September 23, 1979, cat. 50, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, May 6 – August 5, 1984, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, November 3, 1984 – January 6, 1985, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 3 – June 16, 1985, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Milwaukee Art Museum, November 22, 1985 – January 12, 1986, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Portland Art Museum, February 11 – April 6, 1986, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8 – June 29, 1986, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Saint Louis Art Museum, July 18 – September 1, 1986, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Fort Worth Art Museum, September 21 – November 9, 1986, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Drawings Acquisitions
, The Museum of Modern Art, January 24 – May 26, 1987.
Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection
, The Museum of Modern Art, March 16 – May 30, 1989, as
Untitled
.
Drawn in America, 1898–1945
, The Museum of Modern Art, November 1, 1990 – March 5, 1991.
The Surrealist Drawing: A Selection from the Collection
, The Museum of Modern Art, April 18 – September 3, 1991.
Modern Drawing, 1884–1961: A Selection from the Collection
, The Museum of Modern Art, October 23, 1993 – February 15, 1994.
The New York School: Selections from the Collection
, The Museum of Modern Art, September 17, 1998 – January 12, 1999.
The New York School: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art
, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, September 27 – November 30, 1999.
The Abstraction of Landscape: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism
, Fundación Juan March, October 5, 2007 – January 13, 2008, cat. 102, as
Untitled
.
Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture
, The Museum of Modern Art, October 3, 2010 – April 25, 2011.
References
Waldman, Diane.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1978: cat. 50 (b/w).
Clearwater, Bonnie.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
.
American Federation of Arts, New York, 1984: 133, cat. 18 (color).
Leonard, Michael. “A Search for Spiritual Essence.”
Artweek
(June 14, 1986): 3.
Blinken, Donald, et al.
Eliminating the Obstacles Between the Painter and the Observer: The Mark Rothko Foundation, 1976–1986
. New York, 1986: 55.
Chave, Anna C.
Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction.
New Haven, CT, 1989: 69, fig. 13 (b/w).
Waldman, Diane.
Mark Rothko in New York
. New York, 1994: 20, plate 16 (color).
Elger, Dietmar, et al.
The Abstraction of Landscape: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism
. Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 2007: 261, cat. 102 (color).
Nodelman, Sheldon. “The Unknown Rothko.”
Art in America
96, no. 2 (February 2008): 101.
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