[Woman on arm of green sofa]

1986.56.563
Dimensions
18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
N 88
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.563. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Remarks
A green armchair as well as a green sofa like the one in this watercolor appear in several works on paper and canvas made at Rothko’s Brooklyn apartment (1000 Park Place), where he and his wife Edith lived from the fall of 1933 to late 1935 (fig. 1 and see Related Works on Paper).
[Woman on arm of green sofa]
1. Mark Rothko, Woman Reading, c. 1933, oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 28 1/16 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.43.98. [Anfam 40]
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