[Seated man drawing]

[Seated man drawing]

1986.56.207

Date

Medium

Support

Watermark

Dimensions

11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.8 x 21.4 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number

W 407

Collection

National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.207. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Tags

Drawing, figurative, human figure, male, portrait, seated figure

Provenance

Estate of the Artist, 1970–1979

The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986

National Gallery of Art, 1986

Exhibitions

Against the Stream: Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko in the 1930s, Katonah Museum of Art, June 12 – September 4, 1994, as Man with Mustache, Seated with Legs Crossed, Writing.

References

Snyder, Jill. Against the Stream: Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko in the 1930s. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 1994: 62.

Remarks

The figure in this drawing resembles the artist Milton Avery (1885–1965), with whom Rothko established a long-lasting friendship in the late 1920s.