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[Untitled]
1986.56.506
Date
c. 1940
Medium
Ink
,
graphite
Support
Wove paper
Dimensions
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.7 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
H 8.8
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.506. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Figurative
,
Greek mythology
,
Oedipus
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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
References
Breslin, James E. B.
Mark Rothko: A Biography.
Chicago, IL, 1993: 171–172, fig. 25 (b/w).
Harrison, Charles. “Scenes and Details: A Rothko Sketchbook from the Late 1930s.” In
Seeing Rothko
, edited by Glenn Phillips and Thomas Crow. Los Angeles, CA, 2005 : 185, 198n9.
Phillips, Glenn, and Thomas Crow, eds.
Seeing Rothko
. Los Angeles, CA, 2005: 185, 198n9.
Related Works on Paper
[Untitled]
c. 1940
1986.56.522
Remarks
This work relates to a 1940 canvas,
Oedipus
(fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
Oedipus
, 1940, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in., Collection of Christopher Rothko, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 179]
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