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[White cat]
1986.56.609
Date
1933/1934
Medium
Watercolor
Support
Construction paper
Dimensions
14 13/16 x 12 3/16 in. (37.6 x 31.0 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
O 24
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.609. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Animal
,
cat
,
figurative
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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
[White cat]
1933/1934
[White cat in green armchair]
1933/1934
Remarks
A cat with a striped tail appears in several of Rothko’s works on paper and canvas from this period (fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
Woman and Cat
, 1933, oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 28 7/16 x 2 7/16 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.43.47. [Anfam 34]
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