Untitled, 1949

Not on View

Medium

oil and mixed media on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 228.9 × 112 × 4.45 cm (90 1/8 × 44 1/8 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

1986.43.158

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

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

1978: Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1978, no. 94, repro.

1983: Mark Rothko 1949: A Year in Transition / Selections from the Mark Rothko Foundation. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1983-1984, no. 8.

2014: Mark Rothko: Works from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague; Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, South Korea, 2014-2015, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2015: Mark Rothko: A Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2015-2016, no. 22, repro.

2017: Loan for display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2017-2018.

Bibliography

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 316, repro.

1998: Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 433, repro.

2015: Langley, Allison, and Suzanne Quillen Lomax. "Mark Rothko's Multiforms, 1946-1950: Transforming the Painted Surface." Facture 2 (2015): 111-137, figs. 15, 16 (detail), 17 (detail), 19 (detail), Table 1 no. 14.

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, figs. 15, 16 (detail), 17 (detail), 19 (detail).