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 printing 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 is therefore in perfect condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced cardboard package. The shipment will be tracked with a tracking number. 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, along with Pollock, was one of the foremost representatives of American abstraction. With his painting, he sought to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many, he accomplished it. Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From a clearly Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that prompted many minds to escape. He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressionist figuration and absorbed the spirit of the avant-gardes he saw in exhibitions organized by the MoMA. After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning figurative reference, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he initiated the personal abstraction that would define his painting from then on. Rothko’s paintings, enormous, feature wide rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurry, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking almost mystical sensations that are quite intriguing. From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution in American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But in the late 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would commit suicide.

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