[Standing female nude]

1986.56.140

Date

Medium

Support

Watermark

Dimensions

10 15/16 x 8 1/2 in. (27.8 x 21.6 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number

W 20

Catalog Number

IMAGE.150

Collection

National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.140. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Provenance

Estate of the Artist, 1970–1979

The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986

National Gallery of Art, 1986

Related Works on Paper

[Two standing female nudes] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 61

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Two standing female nudes] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 61

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Two standing female nudes with mantel] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 67

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Two standing female nudes] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 68

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Two female nudes standing by a fireplace] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 69

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Two female nudes standing by a fireplace] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 71

1938/1939

[Standing female nude with mantel / Standing female nude with drafting easel] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 72

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Two female nudes standing by a fireplace, two studies] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 73

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Standing female nude with drafting table, two studies] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 74

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Standing female nude with drafting table, two studies] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 75

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Standing female nude with drafting table, two studies] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 76

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Standing female nude with drafting table] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 77

1938/1939

2002.M.8

[Head, arm, hands] Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook, page 78

1938/1939

2002.M.8

Remarks

Rothko appears to have relied on this drawing as a source for the lefthand figure in a small untitled oil painting of two female nudes from about the same period (fig. 1).

1. Mark Rothko, Untitled (Two Female Nudes), 1938/1939, oil on canvas, 9 15/16 x 6 15/16 in., Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 149]