[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.
References
Weiss, Jeffrey, ed. Mark Rothko. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: 327, cat. 108 (color), fig. 14 (color).
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).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, 2000: 166, 144 (color).
Stewart, Jessica. “Chronology.” In Mark Rothko, by Oliver Wick et al. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2001: 193, cat. 94 (color).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2001: 176, 193, cat. 94 (color).
Shiff, Richard. Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes. Pace London, London, 2012: 83, 43 (color).
Wick, Oliver. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2005: 70.
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).
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 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).
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).
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).
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).
Sandler, Irving. Mark Rothko: Paintings, 1948–1969. Pace Gallery, New York, 1983: 41 (color) [reproduced upside down].
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).
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).
Nodelman, Sheldon. “Rediscovering Rothko.” Art in America 87, no. 7 (July 1999): 64 (color).
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