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[Untitled]
Date
1959
Medium
Oil
Support
Watercolor paper
Watermark
Whatman 1958
: J WHATMAN 1958
Mount
hardboard
Dimensions
29 7/8 x 21 7/8 in. (75.9 x 55.6 cm)
Inscription
Verso in black paint: MARK ROTHKO 1959
Collection
Private Collection, c/o Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Provenance
Estelle and Wassily Leontief, Cambridge, Massachusetts, early 1960s, gift of the artist
Svetlana Leontief Alpers and her sons Benjamin and Nicholas Alpers, Berkeley, California, 1997
C & M Arts, New York, 1997
Private Collection, 1997–2005
L & M Arts, New York, 2005
Private Collection, 2005–2011
L & M Arts, New York, 2011
Private Collection, Missouri, 2011–2014
Private Collection, 2014–2017
Private Collection, c/o Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko
, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, as
Untitled
.
Figure to Field: Mark Rothko in the 1940s
, Denver Art Museum, June 23 – September 29, 2013, as
Untitled
.
The Joy of Color
, Mnuchin Gallery, November 1 – December 8, 2018, as
Untitled
.
Church & Rothko: Sublime
, Mnuchin Gallery, September 30, 2020 – March 13, 2021, no. 19, as
Untitled
.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024, as
Untitled
.
References
Alpers, Svetlana.
Roof Life
. New Haven, CT, 2013: 130-140, 148, 151-152, 161, 170.
Wilkin, Karen.
The Joy of Color
. Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY, 2018: 85, 39 (color).
Wilmerding, John.
Church & Rothko: Sublime
. Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY, 2020: 22, 83, 65 (color), 82 (color).
Greenhalgh, Adam.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023: 184, 190n76, plate 52 (color).
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