Untitled

Details

MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970)
Untitled
signed ‘MARK ROTHKO’ (lower left); signed again 'MARK ROTHKO' (on the reverse)
watercolor, gouache and ink on paper
26 x 19 ¾ in. (66 x 49 cm.)
Executed in 1944.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Pace Gallery, New York
Douglas and Carol Cohen, Chicago, 1981
PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2005

Literature

Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978-1979, p. 102, no. 32 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Pace Gallery, Mark Rothko: The Surrealist Year, April-May 1981.
Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938–1948, July 1986–April 1987, p 174., no 122 (illustrated).

Further details

This work is being considered for inclusion in the forthcoming Mark Rothko Online Resource and Catalogue Raisonné of works on paper, compiled by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.