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No. 47
Date
1956
Medium
Oil
Support
Watercolor paper
Mount
hardboard
Dimensions
26 7/8 x 24 in. (68.3 x 61 cm)
Inscription
Lower right in yellow paint: MARK ROTHKO; lower left in yellow paint: MR; verso in yellow paint: MARK ROTHKO 1956
Catalog Number
IMAGE.1762
Collection
Private Collection, Boston. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Provenance
Bernard J. and Rebecca Reis, New York, Late 1960s, gift of the artist
Barbara Poe Levee, Los Angeles, 1974–2013
Adam Poe. Los Angeles, 2013–2014
Private Collection, Boston, 2014
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Ten Major Works
, Newport Harbor Art Museum, January 30 – March 10, 1974, cat. 8, as
Untitled
.
Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations
, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, January 23 – March 28, 1976, cat. 123, as
No. 47
.
References
Selz, Peter.
Mark Rothko
. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961: 44.
Byrnes, James B., ed.
Mark Rothko: Ten Major Works
. Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, 1974: cat. 8 (color).
Waldman, Diane.
Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations
. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1976: 77, cat. 123 (b/w).
Victoria Thorson, ed.
Great Drawings of All Time: The Twentieth Century
, Vol 2. New York, 1979: n.p., cat. 392 (color).
Carmean, E. A., Jr., ed.
Coming to Light: Avery, Gottlieb, Rothko: Provincetown Summers, 1957–1961
. Knoedler & Company, New York, 2002: 77.
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