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Omen
Date
1946
Medium
Watercolor
,
ink
,
scrubbing
,
scraping
Support
Watercolor paper
Dimensions
39 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (99.4 x 63.8 cm)
Inscription
Lower right in graphite: MARK ROTHKO
Collection
The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin
. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Provenance
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1947
William Standard Folger, San Francisco, 1947
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Gene Mako, San Francisco
Private Collection, San Francisco
Runkel-Hue-Williams, Ltd., London, 1991
Simon/Neuman Gallery, Inc., New York, 1991
Christie's, New York, May 7, 1997, Lot number 3
The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin
Exhibitions
Mark Rothko: Exhibition of Watercolors
, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, April 22 – May 4, 1946, no. 9, as
Omen
.
Oils and Watercolors by Mark Rothko
, San Francisco Museum of Art, August 13 – September 8, 1946, as
Omen
.
Oils and Watercolors by Mark Rothko
, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, October 1 – 15, 1946, as
Omen
.
Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, June 16 – August 20, 2000, as
Omen
.
Affinities: Works from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection
, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, June 4 – September 18, 2005, as
Omen
.
Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Francis Bacon: Surreale Kunst aus der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, BA-CA Kunstforum, March 8 – June 18, 2006, cat. 99, as
Omen
.
Bilderträume: Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, Neue Nationalgalerie, June 19 – November 22, 2009, as
Omen
.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
, National Gallery of Art, November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024, as
Omen
.
References
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Art: Hither and Yon."
New York Times
, April 28, 1946: 6.
Wolf, Ben. "Mark Rothko Watercolors."
Art Digest
20, no. 15 (May 1, 1946): 1.
Pietzsch, Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch.
Leben mit Kunst: Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
. Berlin, 2000: 300 (color).
Sharp, Jasper. “The Eyewitness and the Connoisseurs: Two Collections Trace Abstract Expressionism.” In
Affinities: Werke der Peggy Guggenheim Collection und der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, by Jasper Sharp, Henrike Schulte, and Folker Skulima. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2006: 134.
Sharp, Jasper. “Die Augenzeugin und die Sammler: Zwei Sammlungen auf der Spur des Abstrakten Expressionismus.” In
Affinities: Werke der Peggy Guggenheim Collection und der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, by Jasper Sharp, Henrike Schulte, and Folker Skulima. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2006: 135.
Sharp, Jasper, Henrike Schulte, and Folker Skulima.
Affinities: Werke der Peggy Guggenheim Collection und der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2006: 134, 135, 215, 157 (color), 115 (color).
Sharp, Jasper. Rothko entry. In
Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Francis Bacon: Surreale Kunst aus der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, by Evelyn Benesch. BA-CA Kunstforum, Wien, Vienna, 2006: 176.
Benesch, Evelyn.
Verrückte Liebe: Von Dalí bis Francis Bacon: Surreale Kunst aus der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
. BA-CA Kunstforum, Wien, Vienna, 2006: 176, 239, cat. 99 (color).
Sharp, Jasper. "Den ganzen Himmel malen." In
Bilder Träume: Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
, by Udo Kittelmann et al. Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2009: 60.
Kittelmann, Udo, Dieter Scholz, and Anke Daemgen.
Bilder Träume: Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch
. Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2009: 60, 234 (color).
Davidson, Susan. "Feminism for the Most Masculine: How Two Women Launched an Art Market." In
Abstract Expressionism
, edited by David Anfam. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2016: 309n32.
Anfam, David, ed.
Abstract Expressionism
. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2016: 309n32.
Greenhalgh, Adam.
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023: 23, 183, 189n51, 189n56, plate 37 (color).
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