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Mark Rothko (after) - No

Original Mark Rothko poster (*) Reproduction of the work “No. 61 (Rust and Blue) [Brown Blue, Brown on Blue]” oil on canvas created by Rothko in 1953 and belonging to the MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles collection. Done with Giclée technique (pigment ink printing). Luxury edition on heavy archival paper, high-quality cotton, acid-free (300 g/m2). Published by MOCA Authorized printing with copyright by Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko. Large format. Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA) - Sheet dimensions: 91 x 71 cm - Motif dimensions: 76 x 61 cm - Year: 2004 - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, therefore offered in perfect condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be tracked (UPS DPD DHL FedEx). The shipment will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer. (*) Mark Rothko, along with Pollock, was one of the leading figures of American abstraction. With his painting he aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many he accomplished it. Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of obviously Jewish ancestry, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove many minds away. He studied art in the 1920s, but he considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressionist figuration and absorbed the spirit of the vanguards he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions. After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning all figurative reference and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he began the personal abstraction that would define his painting from then on. Rothko’s paintings, huge, show broad rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating quite interesting mystical sensations. From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes would be notable. But at the end of the 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series with black acrylic, he ultimately committed suicide.
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