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2.3375

Date

Medium

Watercolor, chalk, graphite, scrubbing, scraping

Support

Watercolor paper

Dimensions

17 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. (44.8 x 59.7 cm)

Inscription

Verso in black crayon: MARK ROTHKO

Estate/Inventory Number

1095.44

Collection

Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 2.3375. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

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

Saint Louis Art Museum, 1986

Exhibitions

Caught by Politics: Art of the 1930s and 1940s, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, January 19 – March 18, 2001.
Tragic and Timeless: The Art of Mark Rothko, Saint Louis Art Museum, May 24 – September 14, 2014, 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.
Chave, Anna C. Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction. New Haven, CT, 1989: 157, fig. 39 (b/w) [reproduced upside down].