[Still life with pitcher, glass, and orange]

1986.56.475
Date
1925/1926
Medium
Oil
Support
Wove paper
Dimensions
12 x 9 1/16 in. (30.5 x 23.0 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
N 56
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.475. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Figurative, furniture, still life, table
Provenance
Remarks
From October 1925 to May 1926, Rothko was enrolled in a still-life class at the Art Students League of New York taught by Max Weber (1881–1961). This work is reminiscent of still lifes by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906, fig. 1), an artist championed by Weber, and may date from that period. A similar still life painted by Rothko in oil on canvas board dating from c. 1926 is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art (fig. 2).
[Still life with pitcher, glass, and orange]
1. Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit, c. 1900, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman.
[Still life with pitcher, glass, and orange]
2. Mark Rothko, Untitled (still life with pitcher), c. 1926, oil on canvas board, 15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.56.663. [Anfam 6]
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