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[Bust of a woman]
1986.56.502.a
Date
1938/1939
Medium
Ink
Support
Wove paper
Dimensions
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
H 8.4
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.502.a. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Female
,
figurative
,
human figure
,
portrait
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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
Remarks
The verso of this sheet carries a series of ink marks that may indicate the beginnings of an unfinished composition (fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
Untitled [verso]
, pen and black ink on wove paper, 12 x 8 15/16 in., National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.56.502.b.
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