Mark Rothko (after) - Untitled (Violet

Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*) Reproduction of the work “Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red)” created by Rothko in 1949. 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. - Page 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 thus is in perfect condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be with 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, alongside Pollock, was one of the foremost representatives of American abstraction. With his painting he aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many he achieved it. Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From a clearly Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove many minds away. 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 explore color field painting, gradually abandoning figurative reference, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he began the personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since. Rothko’s paintings, huge, show large rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. They are blurred colors that float suspended on the canvas, stimulating mystically interesting sensations. From then on, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But in the late 1960s, amidst a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he ultimately committed suicide.

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