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[Man in chair]
1986.43.195
Date
1934/1935
Medium
Watercolor
Support
Construction paper
Dimensions
11 1/2 x 8 7/8 in. (29.2 x 22.5 cm)
Inscription
Lower right in graphite: MRothkowitz
Estate/Inventory Number
1067.25–27
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.43.195. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Chair
,
figurative
,
furniture
,
human figure
,
male
,
portrait
,
seated figure
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Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970
Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, 1970
Estate of the Artist, 1977–1979
The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986
National Gallery of Art, 1986
References
Blinken, Donald, et al.
Eliminating the Obstacles Between the Painter and the Observer: The Mark Rothko Foundation, 1976–1986
. [New York, 1986]: 45.
Remarks
Rothko’s use of a nonmimetic palette for this figure recalls canvases he painted around this time of a reclining blue-green nude (fig. 1) and a man with a green face (fig. 2).
1. Mark Rothko,
Untitled (Reclining Nude)
, 1933/1934, oil on canvas, 12 x 36 in., Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 42]
2. Mark Rothko,
Untitled (man with green face)
, 1934/1935, oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 24 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.43.100. [Anfam 65]
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