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[Untitled]
Date
1941/1942
Medium
Graphite
,
colored pencil
Support
Bond paper
Dimensions
9 x 12 in. (22.7 x 30.5 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
P 33
Collection
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel
. © 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 Kate Rothko Prizel, 2017
Remarks
This small drawing is superimposed with a numbered grid, drawn in colored pencil, indicating that Rothko almost certainly relied on it when he produced a closely related canvas at a much larger scale (fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
Greek Tragedy
, 1941/1942, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 46 in., The Estate of Edith Carson, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 196]
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