No. 22, 1948

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 97.8 × 99.7 × 3.49 cm (38 1/2 × 39 1/4 × 1 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

1986.43.2

Artists / Makers

Mark Rothko (painter) American, born Russia (now Latvia), 1903 - 1970

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Inscription

upper center reverse: MARK ROTHKO 1947 ["7" written over an illegible numeral]; upper center reverse, sideways: #22

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

Rothko Foundation, Inc., Mark, The

Exhibition History

1989: Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1989-1990, no. 101, repro.

2003: Mark Rothko: A Centennial Celebration, State Museum of Art, Riga; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 2003-2004, unnumbered brochure.

2005: The Art of Mark Rothko: Selections from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Museo de Arte Moderna, Mexico City; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2005-2006, brochures, no. 13.

2013: Mark Rothko: Paintings from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie [National Museum], Warsaw, 2013.

2018: Nymphéas: l'abstraction américaine et le dernier Monet [Water Lilies: American Abstraction and the Last Monet], Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 2018.

Bibliography

1978: Waldman, Diane. Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective. Exh. cat. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York, 1978: no. 79 (not in exhibition).

1984: Clearwater, Bonnie. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper. New York, 1984: 33, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 309, repro. (repro. is incorrectly inverted, showing top of painting as the bottom).

1998: Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 373, repro.

2015: Langley, Allison, and Suzanne Quillen Lomax. "Mark Rothko's Multiforms, 1946-1950: Transforming the Painted Surface." Facture 2 (2015): 111-137, figs. 7, 11 (details), Table 1 no. 10.

2015: Langley, Allison, and Suzanne Quillen Lomax. "Mark Rothko's Multiforms, 1946-1950: Transforming the Painted Surface." Facture: conservation, science, art history 2 (2015): 108-137, 111 unnumbered detail, figs. 7, 11.