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[Untitled]
1986.56.474.a
Date
1941
Medium
Watercolor
,
graphite
Support
Wove paper
Dimensions
5 x 6.9 in. (12.7 x 17.6 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
N 9
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.474.a. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Other Side
[Woman in armchair reading]
1937/1938
National Gallery of Art
1986.56.474.b
Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970–1979
The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986
National Gallery of Art, 1986
References
Pappas, Andrea. “Invisible Points of Departure: Reading Rothko’s Christological Imagery.”
American Jewish History
92, no. 4 (December 2004): 421, 423, 423n43, 424, fig. 8 (b/w) [descriptions for figs. 7 and 8 are reversed].
Related Works on Paper
[Untitled]
1941
1986.56.505
[Untitled]
1941
Remarks
This drawing is related to a 1941 canvas,
A Last Supper
(fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
A Last Supper
, 1941, oil on gesso board, 21 3/8 x 25 3/8 in., Estate of H. R. Hays, East Hampton, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 184]
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