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[Untitled]
1985.48
Date
c. 1945
Medium
Watercolor
,
ink
,
scrubbing
,
scraping
Support
Watercolor paper
Dimensions
30 5/8 x 22 5/16 in. (77.8 x 56.7 cm)
Inscription
Verso in black crayon: MARK ROTHKO
Estate/Inventory Number
1117.40
Collection
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1985.48. © 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, 1979–1985
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, 1985
Exhibitions
101 Masterworks
, University of Iowa Museum of Art, April 19 – August 17, 1986, as
Untitled
.
American Modernism: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection
, University of Iowa Museum of Art, June 3 – July 30, 1995.
Watercolors
, University of Iowa Museum of Art, July 12 – September 13, 1998.
New Forms: The Avant-Garde Meets the American Scene, 1934-1949
, University of Iowa Museum of Art, September 14 – December 4, 2013, as
Untitled
.
References
Hobbs, Robert C. "Early Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism."
Art Journal
45 (Winter 1985): 302, fig. 1 (b/w).
Hobbs, Robert.
The University of Iowa Museum of Art: 101 Masterworks.
The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, 1986: 49 (color), 48 (color detail).
Blinken, Donald, et al.
Eliminating the Obstacles Between the Painter and the Observer: The Mark Rothko Foundation, 1976–1986
. New York, 1986: 53.
Anfam, David. “Rothko in the 1940s: Of Time and Tide.” In
Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950
, edited by Bradford R. Collins. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2012: 82, 154n27, 154n28.
Collins, Bradford R., ed.
Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950
. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2012: 82, 154n27, 154n28.
Kerrigan, Emily A. Rothko entry. In
New Forms: The Avant-Garde Meets the American Scene, 1934-1949
, edited by Kathleen A. Edwards. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa, IA, 2013: fig. 45 (color).
Edwards, Kathleen A., ed.
New Forms: The Avant-Garde Meets the American Scene, 1934-1949
. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, 2013: 113, fig. 45 (color).
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