[Seated female nude]

1986.56.148
Medium
Support
Dimensions
11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
W 481
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.148. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Remarks
This sketch of a nude sitting with her elbow propped on her knee provides the model for the central figure in a canvas Anfam has identified as one exhibited in 1935 as either Bathers or Beach Scene, 1933/1934 (fig. 1).
[Seated female nude]
1. Mark Rothko, Bathers, 1933/1934, oil on canvas, 21 x 27 in., Collection of Christopher Rothko, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 46]
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