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[Untitled]
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Date
1944/1945
Medium
Watercolor
,
ink
,
scrubbing
,
scraping
Support
Watercolor paper
Dimensions
21 3/8 x 14 1/2 in. (54.3 x 36.8 cm)
Inscription
Lower right in black paint: MARK ROTHKO; lower right in yellow ink: MARK ROTHKO
Catalog Number
IMAGE.841
Collection
Private Collection. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Provenance
Herbert J. Benevy, New York, 1980
Christie's, New York, November 13, 1980, Lot number 30, (not sold)
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, 1982
Patricia Learmonth, New York, 1982
Gaston Orellana, Madrid, New York, Florida, c. 1986
Jacques and Marta Hachuel, Madrid, c. 1986–1993
Elvira González, Madrid, 1994
Private Collection, Washington, District of Columbia, 1994
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 1994
Ronnie Meyerson, Inc., New York, 1994
Robert and Connie Nowinski, Seattle, 1994–1996
PaceWildenstein, New York, 1996
Private Collection, New York, 1996–2005
Sotheby's, New York, May 10, 2005, Lot number 31
Private Collection, 2005
Exhibitions
A Problem for Critics
, 67 Gallery, May 14 – July 7, 1945.
El surrealismo entre viejo y nuevo mundo
, Centro atlántico de arte moderno, December 4, 1989 – February 4, 1990, as
Sin título
.
References
Riley, Maude. "Insufficient Evidence."
Art Digest
, June 1, 1945: 12 (b/w).
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Toward Abstract, Or Away?"
New York Times
, July 1, 1945: 2.
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones.
Beuys, Klein, Rothko: Profecía y transformación
. Madrid, 1987: 87.
Centro atlántico de arte moderno.
El surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo
. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 1989: 302, 246 (color).
Anfam, David.
Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas Catalogue Raisonné.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1998: 67n123, fig. 73 (color).
Anfam, David. “Rothko in the 1940s: Of Time and Tide.” In
Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950
, edited by Bradford R. Collins. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2012: 81, fig. 14 (color).
Collins, Bradford R., ed.
Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950
. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2012: 81, fig. 14 (color).
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