[Scene with nude figures]

1986.56.574

Date

1933/1934

Medium

Watercolor

Support

Construction paper

Dimensions

12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Inscription

Lower right in graphite: M Rothkow[itz]

Estate/Inventory Number

N 110

Collection

Provenance

Estate of the Artist, 1970–1979

The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986

National Gallery of Art, 1986

References

Facini, Michelle, Kathryn A. Dooley, Christopher Maines, Kathryn Morales, and John K. Delaney. “Investigating Mark Rothko’s Water-Based Paintings on Construction Paper from the 1930s.” Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History 5 [National Gallery of Art, Washington] (July 2021): 30–36, 40–55, fig. 2 (color), fig. 11 (color detail), fig. 12 (color detail), fig. 17a (b/w), 31 (color detail), i (color detail).

Remarks

This appears to be a preparatory work for an untitled canvas depicting a scene with nude figures (fig.1).

1. Mark Rothko, Untitled (scene with nude figures), 1933/1934, oil on canvas on board, 14 1/4 x 16 5/8 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.56.661. [Anfam 48]