Sea Fantasy, 1946

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 111.8 × 91.8 cm (44 × 36 1/8 in.)

framed: 118.75 × 98.43 × 8.89 cm (46 3/4 × 38 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

1986.43.8

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

upper left reverse: Sea M [crossed out] Fantasy / 1946

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

2012: Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940-1950, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Denver Art Museum; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 2012-2014, no. 26, repro.

Bibliography

1991: Grunenberg, Christoph. Mark Rothko. Washington, D.C., 1991: 11, fig. 7.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 305, repro.

1998: Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 298, repro.