[Man with racquet and ball] The Scribble-In Book, page 100
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Date
Medium
Support
Dimensions
6 3/4 x 4 9/16 in. (17.0 x 11.6 cm)
Collection
Collections of Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
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Exhibitions
Mark Rothko, Palazzo delle esposizioni, October 6, 2007 – January 6, 2008, as The Scribble-In Book [I].
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, February 8 – April 27, 2008, cat. 114, as Skizzenbuch / Sketchbook (The scribble-In Book).
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May 16 – September 14, 2008, cat. 114, as Skizzenbuch / Sketchbook (The scribble-In Book).
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, February 8 – April 27, 2008, cat. 114, as Skizzenbuch / Sketchbook (The scribble-In Book).
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May 16 – September 14, 2008, cat. 114, as Skizzenbuch / Sketchbook (The scribble-In Book).
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Remarks
The figure in this drawing—a male playing paddleball—is the subject of an untitled oil painting from this period (fig. 1). Paddleball is a single-player game utilizing a small rubber ball attached with elastic string to a hard racket; the game was developed in the 1920s and enjoyed popularity throughout the 1930s and beyond.
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1. Mark Rothko, Untitled (man with racket and ball), 1939, oil on gesso board, 8 15/16 x 11 7/8 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.56.658. [Anfam 168]
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