The Party, 1938

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 60 x 80.6 cm (23 5/8 x 31 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

1986.43.54

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

upper right: Rothko; center reverse, sideways: M.Rothkowitz; upper left reverse: MARK ROTHKO

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

1940: New Work by Marcel Gromaire, Mark Rothko, and Joseph Solman, Newman- Willard Gallery, New York, 1940, no cat.

1994: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Donald Blinken, U.S. Embassy residence, Budapest, Hungary, 1994-1997.

2001: Extended loan for use by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, The White House, Washington, D.C., 2001-2017.

2019: Happy!, NSU Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, 2019 - 2020, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1940: "Exotics and the Groups." New York Times (1940): section 9, 10X.

1940: Lowe, Jeannette. "Three Moderns: Rothko, Gromaire, and Solman." Art News 38 (1940): 12.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 286, repro.

1995: Sawin, Martica. Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1995: 98, repro.

1998: Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 138, repro.