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[Seated female nude]
1986.56.148
Date
1934/1935
Medium
Graphite
Support
Bond paper
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
Tags
Female
,
female nude
,
figurative
,
human figure
,
nude
,
seated 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
Related Works on Paper
[Seated female nude]
1934/1935
1986.56.30
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).
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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