Untitled

1944/1945

Mark Rothko

Artist, American, born Russia (now Latvia), 1903 - 1970

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, ink, and graphite on watercolor paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 55.4 × 68.9 cm (21 13/16 × 27 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.43.221

  • Copyright

    Copyright © 2005 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of the artist, 1970; Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, 1970; Estate of the artist, 1977; The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979; gift to the NGA, 1986.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1984

  • Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, OR; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth Art Museum, 1984-1986, no. 12.

1998

  • Mark Rothko, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1998-1999, no. 21 (NGA/WMAA cat.), repro. (shown only in Washington and New York).

2001

  • A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, no. 76.

2005

  • Surrealism USA, National Academy of Design, New York, 2005, no. 88.

Bibliography

1984

  • Clearwater, Bonnie. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper. Exh. cat. American Federation of Arts touring exhibition. New York, 1984: cat. 12.

  • Russell, Marilyn Miller. "Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, the Late Style Reconsidered." Carnegie Magazine 57, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 34.

1986

  • Leonard, Michael. "A Search for Spiritual Essence." Artweek (June 14, 1986): 3.

  • Blinken, Donald, et al. Eliminating the Obstacles Between the Painter and the Observer: The Mark Rothko Foundation. New York, 1986: 46.

1989

  • A Profile of the East Building: Ten Years at the National Gallery of Art, 1978 - 1988. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1989, 178.

1998

  • Weiss, Jeffrey, ed. Mark Rothko. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: no. 21.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 76.

2003

  • Ashton, Dore. Mark Rothko. Exh. cat. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003, 14.

2012

  • Anfam, David. "Rothko in the 1940s: Of Time and Tide." In Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940 - 1950, edited by Bradford R. Collins. Exh. cat. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2012: 81-82, fig. 15.

2016

  • National Gallery of Art. Highlights from the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2016: 308, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right in black paint: MARK ROTHKO; verso in black crayon: MARK ROTHKO

Watermarks

Whatman: ND MADE J WHATMAN 193(9,0?) ENGLAND B

Wikidata ID

Q64595512

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