Untitled (two women at the window)

c. 1937

Mark Rothko

Painter, American, born Russia (now Latvia), 1903 - 1970

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On View

East Building Tower Level, Gallery 615-A

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

  • Dimensions

    overall: 91.4 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in.)
    framed: 97.79 x 67.31 x 6.35 cm (38 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.37.1

  • Copyright

    Copyright © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist [1903-1970]; his estate; consigned 1970 to (Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York); transferred 1977 back to the artist's estate;[1] transferred 1979 to The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York; gift 1986 to NGA.
[1] For a detailed discussion of the transactions surrounding the Rothko estate see Lee Seldes, Legacy of Mark Rothko, New York, 1978.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1938

  • Possibly The Ten: Whitney Dissenters, Mercury Galleries, New York, 1938, checklist no. 15, as Conversation.

1986

  • The Window in Twentieth-Century Art, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1986-1987, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1993

  • Extended loan for use by Richard Aaron, U.S. Ambassador to the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, 1993-1997.

2007

  • Mark Rothko, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2007-2008, no. 6 (English and German cats.), repro.

2011

  • Extended loan for use by Vice President Joseph Biden, Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C., 2011-2017.

2019

  • Mark Rothko [German title: Mark Rothko: Dramaturg der Form], Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, 2019, no. 5, repro.

Bibliography

1938

  • Lowe, Jeannette. "Whitney Dissenters Hold Their Own Exhibition." Art News 38 (1938): 15.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 291, repro.

1994

  • Against the Stream: Avery, Gottlieb, and Rothko in the 1930's. Exh. cat. Katonah Museum of Art, New York, 1994: 29, repro.

1998

  • Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 102, repro., as Conversation [?] {Untitled}.

Inscriptions

lower right: M Rothko; upper left reverse: 1936 - MARK ROTHKO

Wikidata ID

Q20193144

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