[Still life with two statues]

1986.56.636.b

Date

1937/1938

Medium

Ink

Support

Wove paper

Dimensions

5 x 7 in. (12.5 x 17.6 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number

O 19

Collection

National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.636.b. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Other Side

[Untitled]

c. 1940

National Gallery of Art

1986.56.636.a

Provenance

Estate of the Artist, 1970–1979

The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986

National Gallery of Art, 1986

Related Works on Paper

[Seated woman / still life with statues] Gyral Sketch Book 2, page 12

1938/1939

1986.56.645.12

[Still life with statues / animal study] Gyral Sketch Book 2, page 13

1938/1939

1986.56.645.13

[Still life with statues] Gyral Sketch Book 2, page 28

1938/1939

1986.56.645.27

[Still life with statues] Gyral Sketch Book 2, page 29

1938/1939

1986.56.645.28

[Still life with statues] Gyral Sketch Book 2, page 35

1938/1939

1986.56.645.34

[Still life with statues] Gyral Sketch Book 2, page 38

1938/1939

1986.56.645.37

[Seated woman / still life with statues] Gyral Sketch Book 2, page 9

1938/1939

1986.56.645.9

[Statue and plant by window]

1938/1939

Remarks

This drawing is a preparatory study for a 1937–1938 canvas, Untitled (still life with vase and two statues) (fig. 1).

1. Mark Rothko, Untitled (still life with vase and two statues), 1937–1938, oil on linen, 20 1/2 x 30 1/16 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.43.114. [Anfam 134]