[Untitled]
![[Untitled]](https://rothko.nga.gov/media/collectiveaccess/images/3/1/92575_ca_object_representations_media_3127_large.jpg)
1986.56.641
Date
Medium
Support
Dimensions
11 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (28.1 x 21.7 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
H 23.8
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.641. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art, May 6 – August 5, 1984, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, November 3, 1984 – January 6, 1985, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 3 – June 16, 1985, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Milwaukee Art Museum, November 22, 1985 – January 12, 1986, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Portland Art Museum, February 11 – April 6, 1986, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8 – June 29, 1986.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Fort Worth Art Museum, September 21 – November 9, 1986, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, National Gallery of Art, May 3 – August 16, 1998, cat. 89, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Fundació Joan Miró, November 23, 2000 – January 28, 2001, as Sense títol.
Mark Rothko: “A Consummated Experience between Picture and Onlooker”, Fondation Beyeler, February 18 – June 24, 2001, cat. 92, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, November 3, 1984 – January 6, 1985, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 3 – June 16, 1985, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Milwaukee Art Museum, November 22, 1985 – January 12, 1986, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Portland Art Museum, February 11 – April 6, 1986, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8 – June 29, 1986.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Fort Worth Art Museum, September 21 – November 9, 1986, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, National Gallery of Art, May 3 – August 16, 1998, cat. 89, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, cat. 62, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Fundació Joan Miró, November 23, 2000 – January 28, 2001, as Sense títol.
Mark Rothko: “A Consummated Experience between Picture and Onlooker”, Fondation Beyeler, February 18 – June 24, 2001, cat. 92, as Untitled.
References
Clearwater, Bonnie. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper. American Federation of Arts, New York, 1984: 49, 134, cat. 62 (color).
Hiromoto, Nobuyuki. Contemporary Great Masters: Mark Rothko. Vol. 4, Tokyo, 1993: 86 (b/w).
Weiss, Jeffrey, ed. Mark Rothko. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: cat. 89 (color).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, 2000: 165, 117 (color).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2001: 176, cat. 92 (color).
Venturi, Riccardo. “Dossier: Rothko.” Art e dossier 238 (November 2007): 44 (color).
Hiromoto, Nobuyuki. Contemporary Great Masters: Mark Rothko. Vol. 4, Tokyo, 1993: 86 (b/w).
Weiss, Jeffrey, ed. Mark Rothko. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: cat. 89 (color).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, 2000: 165, 117 (color).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2001: 176, cat. 92 (color).
Venturi, Riccardo. “Dossier: Rothko.” Art e dossier 238 (November 2007): 44 (color).
![[Untitled]](https://rothko.nga.gov/media/collectiveaccess/images/5/6/19342_ca_object_representations_media_5619_small.jpg)
![[Untitled]](https://rothko.nga.gov/media/collectiveaccess/images/2/7/23291_ca_object_representations_media_2726_small.jpg)
![[Harvard mural study]](https://rothko.nga.gov/media/collectiveaccess/images/3/4/20458_ca_object_representations_media_3473_small.jpg)
Remarks
The ink stain on the lower edge of this sheet links this drawing to three other untitled drawings closely related in style and facture (see Related Works on Paper), indicating that all were made on sheets, possibly contiguous, from the same sketchpad. The stains probably derive from wet ink along the lower edge of [Untitled] when it was created. Another of the drawings, [Untitled], is a study for the Harvard murals and was likely done by Rothko in the early months of 1962, when he reportedly began work in earnest on the cycle [James E. B. Breslin, Mark Rothko: A Biography (Chicago and London, 1993), 649n19; Karyn Esielonis, “The History of Rothko’s Harvard Murals,” in Marjorie B. Cohn, ed., Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals (Cambridge, 1988), 12n13]. The related ink stains point to the probability of synchronous execution.
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