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[Seated female nude]
Date
1934/1935
Medium
Graphite
Support
Bond paper
Dimensions
11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
W 108
Collection
Collection of Christopher Rothko
. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970–1988
Collections of Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1988–2017
Collection of Christopher Rothko, 2017
Remarks
This sketch of a seated female nude provides the model for the central figure in a canvas Anfam has identified as one exhibited in 1935 as either
Bathers
or
Beach Scene
, 1933/1934 (fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
Untitled (three nudes)
, 1933/1934, oil on canvas, 15 7/8 x 19 15/16 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.43.98. [Anfam 47]
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