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[Untitled]
Date
c. 1948
Medium
Watercolor
Support
Watercolor paper
Watermark
Whatman
Dimensions
41 1/4 x 27 5/16 in. (104.6 x 69.4 cm)
Inscription
Upper right in black crayon (upside down): MARK ROTHKO
Estate/Inventory Number
1238.49
Collection
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel
. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
See the Complete Guide
Other Side
[Untitled]
c. 1949
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel
Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970
Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, 1970
Estate of the Artist, 1977–1988
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel, 1988
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, May 6 – August 5, 1984, cat. 23, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, November 3, 1984 – January 6, 1985, cat. 23, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 3 – June 16, 1985, cat. 23, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Milwaukee Art Museum, November 22, 1985 – January 12, 1986, cat. 23, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Portland Art Museum, February 11 – April 6, 1986, cat. 23, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8 – June 29, 1986, cat. 23, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Fort Worth Art Museum, September 21 – November 9, 1986, cat. 23, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, National Gallery of Art, May 3 – August 16, 1998, cat. 42, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, cat. 42, as
Untitled
.
Rothko: A Painter’s Progress, The Year 1949
, PaceWildenstein, New York, January 23 – February 23, 2004, as
Untitled
.
References
Clearwater, Bonnie.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
.
American Federation of Arts, New York, 1984: 32, 133, cat. 23 (color).
Leonard, Michael. “A Search for Spiritual Essence.”
Artweek
(June 14, 1986): 3.
Polcari, Stephen. “Mark Rothko: Heritage, Environment, and Tradition.”
Smithsonian Studies in American Art
2, no. 2 (Spring 1988): 54, fig. 28 (b/w).
Polcari, Stephen.
Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience
. New York, 1991: 141, fig. 78 (b/w).
Weiss, Jeffrey, ed.
Mark Rothko
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: cat. 42 (color).
Rose, Bernice.
Rothko: A Painter’s Progress: The Year 1949
. PaceWildenstein, New York, 2004: 67, 47 (color).
Glimcher, Arne.
Mark Rothko: The Exhibitions at Pace
. Pace Gallery, New York, 2019: 277.
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