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[Untitled]
1986.56.637
Date
1939/1940
Medium
Watercolor
,
graphite
Support
Wove paper
Dimensions
6 x 7 1/2 in. (15.1 x 18.9 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
N 5
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.637. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Greek mythology
,
Oedipus
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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
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, May 6 – August 5, 1984, cat. 6, as
Untitled (study for Antigone)
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, November 3, 1984 – January 6, 1985, cat. 6, as
Untitled (study for Antigone)
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 3 – June 16, 1985, cat. 6, as
Untitled (study for Antigone)
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Milwaukee Art Museum, November 22, 1985 – January 12, 1986, cat. 6, as
Untitled (study for Antigone)
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Portland Art Museum, February 11 – April 6, 1986, cat. 6, as
Untitled (study for Antigone)
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 8 – June 29, 1986, cat. 6, as
Untitled (study for Antigone)
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Saint Louis Art Museum, July 18 – September 1, 1986, cat. 6, as
Untitled (study for Antigone)
.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
, Fort Worth Art Museum, September 21 – November 9, 1986, cat. 6, as
Untitled (study for Antigone)
.
Figure to Field: Mark Rothko in the 1940s
, Denver Art Museum, June 23 – September 29, 2013, cat. 5, as
Untitled (Related to "Antigone")
.
Mark Rothko in the 1940s: The Decisive Decade
, Arkansas Arts Center, October 25, 2013 – February 9, 2014, cat. 5, as
Untitled (Related to "Antigone")
.
Mark Rothko
, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, September 20, 2014 – March 1, 2015, as
Untitled (Related to 'Antigone')
.
References
Clearwater, Bonnie.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
.
American Federation of Arts, New York, 1984: 27, 132, cat. 6 (color).
Ottmann, Klaus.
The Essential Mark Rothko
. New York, 2003: 46 (color).
Sheets, Hilarie M. “Pulp Mysteries.”
Art News
108, no. 5 (May 2009): 48 (color).
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: 105, 106, cat. 5 (color).
Collins, Bradford R., ed.
Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950
. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2012: 105, 106, cat. 5 (color).
Kaiser, Franz-W., Harry Cooper, Henk van Os, and Joost Zwagerman.
Mark Rothko: Uit de collectie van de National Gallery of Art, Washington
. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands, 2014: 108 (color).
Remarks
This drawing is related to a 1939–1940 canvas,
Antigone
(fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
Antigone
, 1939–1940, oil and charcoal on canvas, 34 x 45 ¾ in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.43.119. [Anfam 178]
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