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[Untitled]
Date
1946
Medium
Watercolor
Support
Watercolor paper
Dimensions
39 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (99.4 x 63.8 cm)
Catalog Number
IMAGE.1029B
Collection
The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin
. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Omen
1946
The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin
Provenance
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1947
William Standard Folger, San Francisco, 1947
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Gene Mako, San Francisco
Private Collection, San Francisco
Runkel-Hue-Williams, Ltd., London, 1991
Simon/Neuman Gallery, Inc., New York, 1991
Christie's, New York, May 7, 1997, Lot number 3
The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin, 1997
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko
, National Gallery of Art, May 3 – August 16, 1998, cat. 29, as
Omen
.
Mark Rothko
, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, cat. 29, as
Omen
.
Mark Rothko
, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, January 14 – April 25, 1999, cat. 16, as
Omen
.
Dalí, Miró, Picasso… Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, June 18 – August 20, 2000.
Affinities: Works from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection
, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, June 4 – September 18, 2005, as
Omen
.
Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Francis Bacon: Surreale Kunst aus der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, BA-CA Kunstforum, March 8 – June 18, 2006, cat. 98, as
Omen
.
Bilderträume: Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, Neue Nationalgalerie, June 19, 2009 – January 10, 2010, as
Omen
.
References
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Art: Hither and Yon."
New York Times
, April 28, 1946: 6.
Stewart, Jessica. “Chronology.” In
Mark Rothko
, edited by Jeffrey Weiss. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: 341.
Weiss, Jeffrey, ed.
Mark Rothko
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: 341, cat. 29 (color).
Jeffett, William, and Martica Sawin.
Surrealism in America during the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
. Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, 1998: 155.
Sozanski, Edward J. “Gauging Rothko's Overall Stature as a Modern Master.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, May 19, 1998: F12.
Weiss, Jeffrey, et al.
Mark Rothko
.
Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, 1999: cat. 16 (color).
Pietzsch, Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch.
Leben mit Kunst: Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
. Berlin, 2000: 300, 301 (color).
Sharp, Jasper, Henrike Schulte, and Folker Skulima.
Affinities: Werke der Peggy Guggenheim Collection und der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2006: 116 (color).
Sharp, Jasper. Rothko entry. In
Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Francis Bacon: Surreale Kunst aus der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, by Evelyn Benesch. BA-CA Kunstforum, Wien, Vienna, 2006: 176.
Benesch, Evelyn.
Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Francis Bacon: Surreale Kunst aus der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
. BA-CA Kunstforum, Wien, Vienna, 2006: 176, 239, cat. 98 (color).
Sharp, Jasper. "Den ganzen Himmel malen." In
Bilder Träume: Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, by Udo Kittelmann et al. Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2009: 60.
Kittelmann, Udo, Dieter Scholz, and Anke Daemgen.
Bilder Träume: Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
. Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2009: 60, 235 (color).
Davidson, Susan. "Feminism for the Most Masculine: How Two Women Launched an Art Market." In
Abstract Expressionism
, edited by David Anfam. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2016: 309n32.
Anfam, David, ed.
Abstract Expressionism
. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2016: 309n32.
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