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Dimensions
6 x 8 7/8 in. (15.2 x 22.5 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
6
Collection
Collection of Christopher Rothko. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, June 7 – August 20, 2005, cat. 7, as Untitled (Study for Antigone).
Mark Rothko, Palazzo delle esposizioni, October 6, 2007 – January 6, 2008, cat. 21, as Untitled (Study for Antigone).
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, February 8 – April 27, 2008, cat. 16, as Ohne Titel (Studie zu Antigone) / Untitled (Study for Antigone).
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May 16 – September 14, 2008, cat. 16, as Ohne Titel (Studie zu Antigone) / Untitled (Study for Antigone).
Mark Rothko, Palazzo delle esposizioni, October 6, 2007 – January 6, 2008, cat. 21, as Untitled (Study for Antigone).
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, February 8 – April 27, 2008, cat. 16, as Ohne Titel (Studie zu Antigone) / Untitled (Study for Antigone).
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May 16 – September 14, 2008, cat. 16, as Ohne Titel (Studie zu Antigone) / Untitled (Study for Antigone).
References
Wick, Oliver. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2005: 23, 69, cat. 7 (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: 14, cat. 21 (color).
Wick, Oliver, ed. Mark Rothko. Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, 2007: 14, 198, cat. 21 (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: 17, cat. 16 (color).
Gassner, Hubertus, Christiane Lange, and Oliver Wick. Mark Rothko Retrospektive. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 17, 211, cat. 16 (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: 14, cat. 21 (color).
Wick, Oliver, ed. Mark Rothko. Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, 2007: 14, 198, cat. 21 (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: 17, cat. 16 (color).
Gassner, Hubertus, Christiane Lange, and Oliver Wick. Mark Rothko Retrospektive. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 17, 211, cat. 16 (color).
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Remarks
This work numbers among a group of small watercolor paintings (see Related Works on Paper) related to a canvas of the period, Antigone, the title of which refers to the daughter of Oedipus described in Greek mythology and the titular protagonist of Sophocles’s tragedy (fig. 1). In this work, Rothko placed the figure with the jutting elbow at the left edge of the figural frieze, a mirror image of the related watercolors and the canvas.
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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., 1986.43.119, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 178]
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