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[Woman and child holding hands] Gyral Sketch Book 1, page 17
1986.56.644.k
Date
1937/1938
Medium
Ink
Support
Wove paper
Dimensions
7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
Collection
National Gallery of Art
, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.644.k. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Child
,
female
,
figurative
,
human figure
,
sketchbook
,
standing figure
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Sketchbook
Gyral Sketch Book 1
1937
–
1938
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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
References
Harrison, Charles. “Scenes and Details: A Rothko Sketchbook from the Late 1930s.” In
Seeing Rothko
, edited by Glenn Phillips and Thomas Crow. Los Angeles, CA, 2005 : 185, 197n2.
Wick, Oliver. “Do They Negate Each Other, Modern and Classical? Mark Rothko, Italy, and the Yearning for Tradition.” In
Mark Rothko
, edited by Oliver Wick. Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, 2007: 12n31, fig. 8 (b/w).
Wick, Oliver. “Do They Negate Each Other, Modern and Classical? Mark Rothko und die Sehnsucht nach Tradition.” In
Mark Rothko Retrospektive
, by Hubertus Gassner et al. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2008: 26n31, fig. 6 (b/w).
Remarks
This drawing relates to a small oil painting,
Mother and Child
, of about this time (fig. 1).
1. Mark Rothko,
Mother and Child
, 1938/1939, oil on gesso board, 5 x 5 in., Private Collection, Courtesy Washburn Gallery, New York, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 146]
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