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Date
1932/1933
Medium
Watercolor
Support
Linen-finish bond paper
Dimensions
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
91.7
Collection
Collection of Christopher Rothko
. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970–1988
Collections of Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1988–2017
Collection of Christopher Rothko, 2017
Remarks
The subject of this watercolor invites speculation. This could be a portrait of Rothko’s pianist friend from Portland, Gordon Soule, who moved to New York City in 1926; he and Rothko shared an apartment there in 1927.
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