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[Interior with figures at piano]
1986.56.478
Date
c. 1938
Medium
Watercolor
Support
Wove paper
Dimensions
5 x 6 3/4 in. (12.7 x 17.0 cm)
Inscription
Lower right in graphite: Rothko
Estate/Inventory Number
O 15
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.478. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Child
,
female
,
figurative
,
figure group
,
girl
,
human figure
,
interior
,
musical instrument
,
piano
,
seated figure
,
standing figure
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Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970–1979
The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986
National Gallery of Art, 1986
References
Fine, Ruth. “Meaning in Touch: Rothko on Paper.” In
Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950
, edited by Bradford R. Collins. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2012: 106, fig. 18 (color).
Collins, Bradford R., ed.
Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950
. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2012: 106, fig. 18 (color).
Remarks
This work relates to a 1938 canvas that was exhibited in 1940 in
New Work by Marcel Gromaire, Mark Rothko, Joseph Solman
(January 8–27) as
The Party
(fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
The Party
, 1938, oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 31 3/4 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.43.54. [Anfam 138]
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