Mark Rothko (after) - Untitled (Lavender and Mulberry)...

Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*) Reproduction of the work “Untitled (Lavender and Mulberry)” created by Rothko in 1959. Printed on thick Fine Art board. Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004. Authorized print with copyright by Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko. Large Format. - Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm - Year: 2004 - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, and therefore remains in perfect condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be sent with tracking. The shipment will also include transport 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, alongside Pollock, was the leading figure of American abstraction. With his painting he sought to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many he achieved it. Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of obviously Jewish family background, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove many minds to escape. He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. He developed expressionist figuration before World War II and absorbed the spirit of the vanguards he saw in exhibitions organized by the MoMA. After the war he began to explore 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 thereafter. Rothko’s works, enormous, display broad rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. They are blurred colors, 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 were notable. But at the end of the 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would end up taking his own life.

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