[Untitled]

[Untitled]

Date

Medium

Support

Watercolor paper

Mount

Dimensions

39 x 25 3/4 in. (99.1 x 65.4 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number

1166.68

Collection

Collection of Christopher Rothko. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

Provenance

Estate of the Artist, 1970

Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, 1970

Estate of the Artist, 1977–1988

Collection of Christopher Rothko, 1988

Exhibitions

The Value of Water: Sustaining a Green Planet, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, September 22, 2011 – March 25, 2012, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, National Gallery of Art, November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024, as Untitled.

References

Rothko, Christopher. Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out. New Haven, CT, 2015: 90-91, 223, 302, fig. 54 (color).
Greenhalgh, Adam. Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023: 185, plate 68 (color).

Remarks

This work was recorded as “unmounted” on January 10, 1969, when it was documented as part of Rothko’s inventory of 1968/1969. It was likely mounted after Rothko’s death by his dealer, Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, possibly by their conservators Edward Brown and Alan Thielker.