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[Untitled]
1986.43.175
Date
c. 1946
Medium
Watercolor
,
scraping
,
scrubbing
Support
Watercolor paper
Watermark
Whatman 1943
: HAND MADE J WHATMAN 1943 ENGLAND
Dimensions
40 3/4 x 27 1/16 in. (103.5 x 68.7 cm)
Inscription
Verso in black crayon: MARK ROTHKO
Estate/Inventory Number
1011.44
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.43.175. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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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
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 27, 1978 – January 14, 1979, cat. 44, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
, Walker Art Center, April 22 – June 10, 1979, cat. 44, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 10 – September 23, 1979, cat. 44, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, May 6 – August 5, 1984, cat. 19, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, November 3, 1984 – January 6, 1985, cat. 19, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 3 – June 16, 1985, cat. 19, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Milwaukee Art Museum, November 22, 1985 – January 12, 1986, cat. 19, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Portland Art Museum, February 11 – April 6, 1986, cat. 19, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8 – June 29, 1986, cat. 19, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Saint Louis Art Museum, July 18 – September 1, 1986, cat. 19, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Fort Worth Art Museum, September 21 – November 9, 1986, cat. 19, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, September 23 – November 5, 1995, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, November 11 – December 24, 1995, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, Nagoya City Art Museum, January 4 – February 12, 1996, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, February 17 – March 24, 1996, cat. 18, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, National Gallery of Art, May 3 – August 16, 1998, cat. 28, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko
, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, cat. 28, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway, May 16 – September 22, 2024, as
Untitled
.
References
Waldman, Diane.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1978: cat. 44 (b/w).
Clearwater, Bonnie.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
.
American Federation of Arts, New York, 1984: 133, cat. 19 (color).
Blinken, Donald, et al.
Eliminating the Obstacles Between the Painter and the Observer: The Mark Rothko Foundation, 1976–1986
. [New York, 1986]: 44.
Leonard, Michael. “A Search for Spiritual Essence.”
Artweek
(June 14, 1986): 3.
Anfam, David, Nobuyuki Hiromoto, Sumi Hayashi, and Naoko Seki.
Mark Rothko
. Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 1995: cat. 18 (color).
Weiss, Jeffrey, ed.
Mark Rothko
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: cat. 28 (color).
Anfam, David.
Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas Catalogue Raisonné.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1998: 80, 102n138, fig. 92 (color).
Anfam, David.
L’Expressionnisme
abstrait.
Translated by Olivier Meyer. Paris, 1999: 94, fig. 69 (b/w).
Ashton, Dore.
Mark Rothko
.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003: 15 (color).
Anfam, David, ed.
Abstract Expressionism
. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2016: 94, fig. 69 (b/w).
Greenhalgh, Adam.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023: 183, plate 41 (color).
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