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Totemic Sign / Totem Sign
1986.43.266
Date
c. 1946
Medium
Watercolor
,
ink
Support
Watercolor paper
Watermark
Unbleached Arnold
: LINEN FIBRE UNBLEACHED ARNOLD
Dimensions
29 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (74.9 x 53.8 cm)
Inscription
Lower right in black paint: MARK ROTHKO; verso in black crayon: MARK ROTHKO
Estate/Inventory Number
1301.45
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.43.266. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Provenance
Estate of the Artist, 1970
Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, 1970
Estate of the Artist, 1977–1979
The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, 1979–1986
National Gallery of Art, 1986
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Exhibition of Watercolors
, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, April 22 – May 4, 1946, no. 17, as
Totemic Sign
.
Nebraska Art Association: 58th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art
, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, February 29 – March 28, 1948, no. 135, as
Totem Sign
.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 27, 1978 – January 14, 1979, cat. 38, as
Totem Sign
.
References
Waldman, Diane.
Mark Rothko, 1903–1970: A Retrospective
. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1978: cat. 38 (b/w).
Kramer, Hilton. “Rothko–Art as Religious Faith.”
New York Times,
November 12, 1978: 35.
Fujieda, Teruo. “Special Feature: Mark Rothko.”
Mizue
888 (March 1979): 11 (b/w) [caption erroneously lists the collection as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum].
Gibson, Ann. “Regression and Color in Abstract Expressionism: Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still.”
Arts Magazine
55, no. 7 (March 1981): 144, 146 (color).
Blinken, Donald, et al.
Eliminating the Obstacles Between the Painter and the Observer: The Mark Rothko Foundation, 1976–1986
. [New York, 1986]: 47.
Polcari, Stephen.
Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience
. New York, 1991: 129.
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