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[Untitled]
2024.88.28
Date
1945/1946
Medium
Watercolor
,
ink
,
graphite
,
scrubbing
,
scraping
Support
Watercolor paper
Dimensions
22 15/16 x 31 1/4 in. (58.3 x 79.4 cm)
Inscription
Verso in black crayon: MARK ROTHKO
Estate/Inventory Number
1121.40
Catalog Number
IMAGE.1856
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
, Gift of the Maria and Conrad Janis Estate, 2024, 2024.88.28. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970
Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, 1970
Estate of the Artist, 1977-1988
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel, 1988-2014
The Pace Gallery, New York, 2014
Maria and Conrad Janis, Los Angeles, California, 2014-2022
Maria and Conrad Janis Estate, Los Angeles, California, 2022-2024
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969
, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, June 7 – August 20, 2005, cat. 25, as
Untitled (Archaic Seascape, Primeval Landscape)
.
Mark Rothko Retrospektive
, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, February 8 – April 27, 2008, cat. 32, as
Ohne Titel (Archaisches Seestück, Urzeitliche Landschaft)
.
Mark Rothko Retrospektive
, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May 16 – September 14, 2008, cat. 32, as
Ohne Titel (Archaisches Seestück, Urzeitliche Landschaft)
.
Mark Rothko: The Watercolors, 1941–1947
, Pace Gallery, New York, May 2 – June 21, 2014.
References
Wick, Oliver.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969
. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2005: 69, cat. 25 (color).
Wick, Oliver. “Do They Negate Each Other, Modern and Classical? Mark Rothko, Italy, and the Yearning for Tradition.” In
Mark Rothko
, edited by Oliver Wick. Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, 2007: 18.
Boehm, Gottfried. “Das Lebendige: Rothkos Zugänge zum Bild.” In
Mark Rothko Retrospektive
, by Hubertus Gassner et al. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 181.
Gassner, Hubertus, Christiane Lange, and Oliver Wick.
Mark Rothko Retrospektive
. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 18, 181, 212, cat. 32 (color).
Lawrence, James.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1941–1947
. Pace Gallery, New York, 2014: 87, 65 (color).
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