No. 5, 1958

Not on View

Medium

oil and acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 167.6 x 105.2 cm (66 x 41 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

1986.43.162

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

on lower tacking margin reverse, inverted: 1958 #5

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

1991: Loan for display with permanent collection, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, 1991-1995.

2011: The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899-2011), New Britain Museum of American Art; Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania; Wichita Art Museum; Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachusetts, 2011-2012, no. 95, repro. (shown only in New Britain, Greensburg, and Wichita).

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. 41, repro.

2018: Extended loan for use by Ambassador Duke Buchan, U.S. Embassy residence, Madrid, 2018-2020.

Bibliography

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 321, repro.

1998: Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 614, repro.