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Woman and Cat, 1933

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 80.6 x 61 cm (31 3/4 x 24 in.)

framed: 91.8 x 72.2 x 6.2 cm (36 1/8 x 28 7/16 x 2 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

1986.43.47

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

lower right: M.Rothkowitz

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

1934: Paintings by Selected Young Americans, Uptown Gallery, Continental Club, New York, 1934, no. 46.

1994: Against the Stream: Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko in the 1930s, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, 1994, unnumbered checklist, fig. 18.

Bibliography

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 279, repro., as Untitled (woman and cat).

1998: Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 34, repro.

Woman and Cat, 1933

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