[Untitled]

Date
1969
Medium
Acrylic
Support
Wove paper
Mount
linen
Dimensions
53 3/4 x 42 3/8 in. (136.4 x 107.6 cm)
Inscription
Verso: MARK ROTHKO
Estate/Inventory Number
2066.69
Collection
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Provenance
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art, May 6 – August 5, 1984, cat. 86, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, November 3, 1984 – January 6, 1985, cat. 86, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 3 – June 16, 1985, cat. 86, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Milwaukee Art Museum, November 22, 1985 – January 12, 1986, cat. 86, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Portland Art Museum, February 11 – April 6, 1986, cat. 86, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8 – June 29, 1986, cat. 86, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Fort Worth Art Museum, September 21 – November 9, 1986, cat. 86, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: The Last Paintings, Pace Gallery, New York, February 18 – March 19, 1994, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, National Gallery of Art, May 3 – August 16, 1998, cat. 108, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, cat. 108, 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. 94, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, June 7 – August 20, 2005, cat. 60, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Palazzo delle esposizioni, October 6, 2007 – January 6, 2008, cat. 97, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, February 8 – April 27, 2008, cat. 106, as Ohne Titel / Untitled.
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May 16 – September 14, 2008, cat. 106, as Ohne Titel / Untitled.
Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes, Pace London, October 4 – November 17, 2012, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, March 12 – June 30, 2019, cat. 44, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, National Gallery of Art, November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024, as Untitled.
References
Sandler, Irving. Mark Rothko: Paintings, 1948–1969. Pace Gallery, New York, 1983: 41 (color) [reproduced upside down].
Clearwater, Bonnie. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper. American Federation of Arts, New York, 1984: 135, cat. 86 (color).
Glimcher, Marc, ed. The Art of Mark Rothko: Into an Unknown World. New York, 1991: plate 48 (color) [reproduced upside down].
O’Doherty, Brian. Mark Rothko: The Last Paintings. Pace Gallery, New York, 1994: 33, 13 (color).
Weiss, Jeffrey. “Rothko’s Unknown Space.” In Mark Rothko, edited by Jeffrey Weiss. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: 327, cat. 108 (color), fig. 14 (color).
Weiss, Jeffrey, ed. Mark Rothko. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: 327, cat. 108 (color), fig. 14 (color).
Nodelman, Sheldon. “Rediscovering Rothko.” Art in America 87, no. 7 (July 1999): 64 (color).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, 2000: 166, 144 (color).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2001: 176, 193, cat. 94 (color).
Stewart, Jessica. “Chronology.” In Mark Rothko, by Oliver Wick et al. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2001: 193, cat. 94 (color).
Wick, Oliver. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2005: 70.
Painter, Karen, and Thomas Crow, eds. Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 2006: 57, plate 13 (color).
Crow, Thomas. “Unknowing Parallels: The Last Artistic Thoughts of Mark Rothko and Eva Hesse.” In Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work, edited by Karen Painter and Thomas Crow. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 2006: 57, plate 13 (color).
Wick, Oliver, ed. Mark Rothko. Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, 2007: 15,23, 199, cat. 97 (color).
Wick, Oliver. “Do They Negate Each Other, Modern and Classical? Mark Rothko, Italy, and the Yearning for Tradition.” In Mark Rothko, edited by Oliver Wick. Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, 2007: 15, 23, cat. 97 (color).
Gassner, Hubertus, Christiane Lange, and Oliver Wick. Mark Rothko Retrospektive. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 19, 24, 183, 215, cat. 106 (color).
Boehm, Gottfried. “Das Lebendige: Rothkos Zugänge zum Bild.” In Mark Rothko Retrospektive, by Hubertus Gassner et al. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 183, cat. 106 (color).
Wick, Oliver. “Do They Negate Each Other, Modern and Classical? Mark Rothko und die Sehnsucht nach Tradition.” In Mark Rothko Retrospektive, by Hubertus Gassner et al. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 19, 24, cat. 106 (color).
Shiff, Richard. Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes. Pace London, London, 2012: 83, 43 (color).
Rothko, Christopher. Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out. New Haven, CT, 2015: 247, 302, fig. 75 (color).
Haag, Sabine, and Jasper Sharp, eds. Mark Rothko. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, 2019: cat. 44 (color).
Glimcher, Arne. Mark Rothko: The Exhibitions at Pace. Pace Gallery, New York, 2019: 284, plate 64 (color).
Greenhalgh, Adam. Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023: 43, 186, plate 89 (color).
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