[Untitled]

[Untitled]

Date

Medium

Oil, watercolor

Support

Watercolor paper

Watermark

Whatman 1958: J WHATMAN 1958

Mount

Dimensions

29 7/8 x 21 7/8 in. (75.9 x 55.6 cm)

Inscription

Verso in black paint: MARK ROTHKO 1959

Collection

Private Collection, New York. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Provenance

Estelle and Wassily Leontief, Cambridge, Massachusetts, early 1960s, gift of the artist

Svetlana Leontief Alpers and her sons Benjamin and Nicholas Alpers, Berkeley, California, 1997

C & M Arts, New York, 1997

L & M Arts, New York, 2005

Private Collection, 1997-2005

L & M Arts, New York, 2011

Private Collection, 2005-2011

Private Collection, New York, 2014-2017

Private Collection, Missouri, 2011-2014

Private Collection, c/o Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York, 2017-2024

Private Collection, New York, 2024

Exhibitions

Mark Rothko, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, as Untitled.
Figure to Field: Mark Rothko in the 1940s, Denver Art Museum, June 23 – September 29, 2013, as Untitled.
The Joy of Color, Mnuchin Gallery, November 1 – December 8, 2018, as Untitled.
Church & Rothko: Sublime, Mnuchin Gallery, September 30, 2020 – March 13, 2021, no. 19, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, National Gallery of Art, November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024, as Untitled.

References

Alpers, Svetlana. Roof Life. New Haven, CT, 2013: 130-140, 148, 151-152, 161, 170.
Wilkin, Karen. The Joy of Color. Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY, 2018: 85, 39 (color).
Wilmerding, John. Church & Rothko: Sublime. Mnuchin Gallery, New York, 2020: 22, 83, 65 (color), 82 (color).
Greenhalgh, Adam. Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023: 184, 190n76, plate 52 (color).
Millet-Sorsa, Amanda. “Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.” The Brooklyn Rail (February 2024): 50 (color).