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[Standing female nude]
1986.56.140
Date
1938/1939
Medium
Ink
Support
Bond paper
Watermark
Cronicon
Dimensions
11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.8 x 21.6 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
W 20
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.140. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Female
,
female nude
,
figurative
,
human figure
,
nude
,
standing figure
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Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970–1979
The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986
National Gallery of Art, 1986
Remarks
Rothko appears to have relied on this drawing as a source for the lefthand figure in a small untitled oil painting of two female nudes from about the same period (fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
Untitled (Two Female Nudes)
, 1938/1939, oil on canvas, 9 15/16 x 6 15/16 in., Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 149]
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