Untitled, 1948

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 126.4 x 111.8 cm (49 3/4 x 44 in.)

framed: 134.9 x 119.4 x 7.3 cm (53 1/8 x 47 x 2 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

1986.43.4

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

upper right reverse: MARK ROTHKO / 1948

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

2001: Extended loan for use by Secretary Roderick R. Paige, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., 2001-2005.

2012: Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940-1950, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Denver Art Museum; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 2012-2014, no. 38, repro.

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.

2015: Mark Rothko: A Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2015-2016.

2018: Nymphéas: l'abstraction américaine et le dernier Monet [Water Lilies: American Abstraction and the Last Monet], Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 2018.

Bibliography

1989: Chave, Anna C. Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction. New Haven, 1989: 72, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 314, repro.

1998: Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 382, repro.

2015: Langley, Allison, and Suzanne Quillen Lomax. "Mark Rothko's Multiforms, 1946-1950: Transforming the Painted Surface." Facture 2 (2015): 111-137, figs. 8,12,14 (details), Table 1 no. 11.

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. 8, 12, 14 (details).