Untitled

1968

Mark Rothko

Associated Names
Mark Rothko

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

This painting features four horizontal bands of color. The top band is deep blue, and the middle band is pale yellow, and these are a similar size. Below the yellow rectangle is another stripe of the deep blue color, although this is about half the size of the two others. The bottom layer is a rectangle of even darker blue, and it is roughly the size of the middle two rectangles combined. The lines between the sections are blurred, and the paint has been applied with visible, uneven strokes, creating some variation in color within each section. These rectangles are bordered by a thin line of off-white paper, which has some spots of blue and yellow paint on it.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    acrylic on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

  • Dimensions

    sheet (approx.): 152.08 × 107 cm (59 7/8 × 42 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1986.43.252

  • Copyright

    Copyright © 2023 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Mark Rothko, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba-ken; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art; Nagoya City Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1995-1996, no. 48, repro.

2014

  • Mark Rothko: Works from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 2014-2015.

2016

  • Abstract Expressionism, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2016-2017.

2023

  • Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, 2023-2024 (shown only in Washington), repro.

Bibliography

1991

  • Grunenberg, Christoph. Mark Rothko. Washington, D.C., 1991: 19-20, fig. 16.

1995

  • "Mark Rothko". Exh. cat. Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba-ken; Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art; Nagoya City Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1995-1996: no. 48.

2016

  • Anfram, David. Abstract Expressionism. Exh. cat Royal Academy of Arts, London; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, 2016.

2023

  • Greenhalgh, Adam.Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo, 2023-2024.

Wikidata ID

Q64595552

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