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[Woman in armchair]
1986.56.633
Date
1934/1935
Medium
Watercolor
Support
Construction paper
Dimensions
12 x 8 in. (30.5 x 20.3 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
O 58
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.633. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Armchair
,
female
,
figurative
,
furniture
,
human figure
,
portrait
,
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
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, May 6 – August 5, 1984, cat. 4, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, November 3, 1984 – January 6, 1985, cat. 4, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 3 – June 16, 1985, cat. 4, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Milwaukee Art Museum, November 22, 1985 – January 12, 1986, cat. 4, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Portland Art Museum, February 11 – April 6, 1986, cat. 4, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8 – June 29, 1986, cat. 4, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Saint Louis Art Museum, July 18 – September 1, 1986, cat. 4, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Fort Worth Art Museum, September 21 – November 9, 1986, cat. 4, as
Untitled
.
Against the Stream: Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko in the 1930s
, Katonah Museum of Art, June 12 – September 4, 1994, as
Seated Woman
.
Mark Rothko
, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, September 20, 2014 – March 1, 2015, as
Seated Woman
.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024, as
Untitled (woman in armchair)
.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway, May 16 – September 22, 2024, as
Untitled (woman in armchair)
.
References
Clearwater, Bonnie.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
.
American Federation of Arts, New York, 1984: 20, 132, cat. 4 (color).
Kessler, Pamela. “Fade to Gray: Mark Rothko at National.”
Washington Post,
May 4, 1984: weekend section, 39 (b/w).
“Rothko: Works on Paper.”
Exhibit 123
(July–August 1984): 6–7, 7 (b/w).
Snyder, Jill.
Against the Stream: Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko in the 1930s
. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 1994: 61.
Caltagirone, Sandra. “Rothko: Investigation au coeur d’un ciel intérieur.”
Art & Culture
[Palais des Beaux-arts, Brussels] 13, no. 5 (January 1999): 4 (color).
Boenders, Frans. “De sjamanenkunst van Mark Rothko/De zielentocht van Mark Rothko.”
Kunst & Cultuur
[Palais des Beaux-arts] 32, no. 1 (January 1999): 4 (color).
Ashton, Dore.
Mark Rothko
.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003: 12 (color).
Baal-Teshuva, Jacob.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: Pictures as Drama
. Cologne, Germany, 2003: 19 (b/w).
Clearwater, Bonnie.
The Rothko Book
. London, 2006: 20, fig. 13 (color).
Kaiser, Franz-W., Harry Cooper, Henk van Os, and Joost Zwagerman.
Mark Rothko: Uit de collectie van de National Gallery of Art, Washington
. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands, 2014: 102 (color).
Greenhalgh, Adam.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023: 16, 180, plate 3 (color).
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