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[Seated man]
Gyral Sketch Book 2, page 17
1986.56.645.17
Date
1938/1939
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., 1986.56.645.17. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Tags
Figurative
,
human figure
,
male
,
seated figure
,
sketchbook
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[Sleeping woman / head] Gyral Sketch Book 2, page 18
1938/1939
National Gallery of Art
1986.56.645.18
Sketchbook
Gyral Sketch Book 2
1938
–
c. 1940
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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
Clearwater, Bonnie.
Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
.
American Federation of Arts, New York, 1984: 21 (b/w).
Hiromoto, Nobuyuki.
Contemporary Great Masters: Mark Rothko.
Vol. 4, Tokyo, 1993: 81 (b/w).
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.
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