[Untitled]

Date
1946
Medium
Watercolor, scrubbing, scraping
Support
Watercolor paper
Dimensions
39 1/2 x 25 7/8 in. (100.3 x 65.7 cm)
Inscription
Lower right in graphite: Mark Rothko
Collection
Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Donald Blinken. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Provenance
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko, The Museum of Modern Art, January 18 – March 12, 1961, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: A Retrospective Exhibition: Paintings, 1945–1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October 11 – November 8, 1961, cat. 3, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Stedelijk Museum, November 23 – December 27, 1961, cat. 3, as zonder titel.
Mark Rothko, Palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles, January 6 – 28, 1962, cat. 3, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Kunsthalle Basel, March 3 – April 8, 1962, cat. 3, as Ohne Titel.
Mark Rothko, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, April 27 – September 1, 1962, cat. 3, as Senza titolo.
Mark Rothko, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, December 5, 1962 – January 13, 1963, cat. 3, as Untitled.
Two Hundred Years of Watercolor Painting in America: An Exhibition Commemorating the Centennial of the American Watercolor Society, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 8, 1966 – January 29, 1967, cat. 226, as Untitled.
New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940–1970, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 18, 1969 – February 1, 1970, cat. 344, as Untitled.
Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, January 23 – March 28, 1976, cat. 121, as Untitled.
Amerikanische Zeichner des 20. Jahrhunderts: Drei Generationen von der Armory Show bis heute, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, May 27 – July 11, 1976, cat. 104, as Ohne Titel.
Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, Kunsthalle Bremen, July 18 – August 29, 1976, cat. 104, as Ohne Titel.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 27, 1978 – January 14, 1979, cat. 61, as Untitled.
Baudelaire's Voyages: The Poet and His Painters, Heckscher Museum of Art, August 28 – November 14, 1993, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, National Gallery of Art, May 3 – August 16, 1998, cat. 30, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko, Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17 – November 29, 1998, cat. 30, as Untitled.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, National Gallery of Art, November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024, as Untitled.
References
Coates, Robert M. "The Art Galleries: In the Museums." New Yorker, January 28, 1961: 78-79.
Goldwater, Robert, and Peter Selz. Mark Rothko, A Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings 1945–1960. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1961: cat. 3 (b/w).
Selz, Peter. "Mark Rothko." L'Oeil 76 (April 1961): 37 (b/w).
Goldwater, Robert, Emilio Villa, and Peter Selz. Mark Rothko. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1961: n.p..
Oeri, Georgine. "Mark Rothko." Quadrum 10 (1961): 70-71, 66 (b/w).
Selz, Peter. Mark Rothko. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961: 43, 15 (b/w).
Selz, Peter. Mark Rothko. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1962: n.p..
Goldwater, Robert, and Peter Selz. Mark Rothko. Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 1962: n.p., n.p. (b/w).
Bucarelli, Palma. Mark Rothko. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, 1962: 17, cat. 3 (b/w).
Alloway, Lawrence. "Notes on Rothko." Art International 6, no. 5-6 (Summer 1962): 90, 94n2, fig. 1 (b/w).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two Hundred Years of Watercolor Painting in America: An Exhibition Commemorating the Centennial of the American Watercolor Society. New York, 1966.: 32.
Geldzahler, Henry. New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1969: 58, 295 (b/w).
Sandler, Irving. The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism. New York, 1970: figs. 2-8 (b/w).
Till, Elizabeth. "A Study in Retrospect." Northwest Magazine: The Sunday Oregonian (March 29, 1970): 6 (b/w).
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations. New York, 1976: 77, cat. 121 (b/w).
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Amerikanische Zeichner des 20. Jahrhunderts – Drei Generationen von der Armory Show bis heute. Baden-Baden, Germany, 1976: 27, n.p. (b/w).
Waldman, Diane. Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1978: cat. 61 (b/w).
Fujieda, Teruo. “Special Feature: Mark Rothko.” Mizue 888 (March 1979): 24 (color).
Coven, Jeffrey. Baudelaire's Voyages: The Poet and His Painters. The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, 1993: 176.
May, Stephen. "Rothko: Emotion in the Abstract." World & I 13, no. 7 (July 1998): 113 (b/w).
Robertson, Bryan. "About Rothko." Modern Painters 11 (Autumn 1998): 26 (color) [reproduced upside down].
Weiss, Jeffrey, ed. Mark Rothko. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: cat. 30 (color).
Baal-Teshuva, Jacob. Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: Pictures as Drama. Cologne, Germany, 2003: 28, 29 (color).
Wick, Oliver. Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, 1930–1969. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2005: 30n7.
Collins, Bradford R., ed. Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2012: 103.
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: 103.
Greenhalgh, Adam. Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023: 27, 183, plate 39 (color).
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