[Untitled]

Date
c. 1946
Medium
Watercolor
Support
Watercolor paper
Dimensions
39 1/2 x 26 in. (100.3 x 66.0 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
1008.45
Collection
Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Provenance
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko, Kunsthaus Zürich, March 21 – May 9, 1971, cat. 7, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, May 26 – July 19, 1971, cat. 7, as Ohne Titel.
Mark Rothko, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, August 24 – October 3, 1971, cat. 7, as Ohne Titel.
Mark Rothko, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, November 20, 1971 – January 2, 1972, cat. 7, as Zonder titel.
Mark Rothko, Musée national d'art moderne, March 23 – May 8, 1972, cat. 5, as Sans titre.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 27, 1978 – January 14, 1979, cat. 68, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 10 – April 1, 1979, cat. 68, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective, Walker Art Center, April 22 – June 10, 1979, cat. 68, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 10 – September 23, 1979, cat. 68, as Untitled.
Paintings by Mark Rothko, 1945–1969, University of Michigan Museum of Art, March 5 – May 8, 1994, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, September 23 – November 5, 1995, cat. 14, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, November 11 – December 24, 1995, cat. 14, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Nagoya City Art Museum, January 4 – February 12, 1996, cat. 14, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, February 17 – March 24, 1996, cat. 14, 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. 76, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, June 7 – August 20, 2005, cat. 31, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Palazzo delle esposizioni, October 6, 2007 – January 6, 2008, cat. 43, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, February 8 – April 27, 2008, cat. 42, as Ohne Titel / Untitled.
Mark Rothko Retrospektive, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May 16 – September 14, 2008, cat. 42, as Ohne Titel / Untitled.
Mark Rothko: The Watercolors, 1941–1947, Pace Gallery, New York, May 2 – June 20, 2014, as Untitled.
References
Baumann, Felix Andreas, ed. Mark Rothko. Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 1971: cat. 7 (color).
Baumann, Felix Andreas. Mark Rothko. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, 1971: cat. 7 (color).
Baumann, Felix Andreas, ed. Mark Rothko. Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1971: cat. 7 (color).
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. Mark Rothko. Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1972: cat. 7 (color).
Baumann, Felix Andreas, ed. Mark Rothko. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, 1972: 2.
Waldman, Diane. Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1978: cat. 68 (color).
Anfam, David, Nobuyuki Hiromoto, Sumi Hayashi, and Naoko Seki. Mark Rothko. Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 1995: 19, cat. 14 (color).
Anfam, David. “The Art of Mark Rothko: Simplifying the Complex Thought.” In Mark Rothko, by David Anfam et al. Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 1995: 19, cat. 14 (color).
Ashton, Dore. “Rothko, obra en papel.” Arte y parte, no. 29 (October–November 2000): 33 (color).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain, 2000: 163, 75 (color).
Wick, Oliver, et al. Mark Rothko. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2001: 175, cat. 76 (color).
Wick, Oliver. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2005: 69.
Wick, Oliver, ed. Mark Rothko. Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, 2007: 15, 199, cat. 43 (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: 15, cat. 43 (color).
Gassner, Hubertus, Christiane Lange, and Oliver Wick. Mark Rothko Retrospektive. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 19, 168–169, 174, 181, 212, cat. 42 (color).
Gassner, Hubertus. “‘Das Entsetzen oder die Hoffnung’: Mark Rothko sieht Pierre Bonnard.” In Mark Rothko Retrospektive, by Hubertus Gassner et al. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 168–169, 174, cat. 42 (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, cat. 42 (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: 181.
Nodelman, Sheldon. “The Unknown Rothko.” Art in America 96, no. 2 (February 2008): 101, 103 (color).
Lawrence, James. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1941–1947. Pace Gallery, New York, 2014: 87, 71 (color).
Glimcher, Arne. Mark Rothko: The Exhibitions at Pace. Pace Gallery, New York, 2019: 274.
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