Mark Rothko (after) - Maroon on Blue - Offset lithography - VG licensed print - 2004

Offset Lithograph after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” a work created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art 200g 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 kept in a professional art folder, thus in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be traceable 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 leading figures of American abstraction. With his painting he sought to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many, he did.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From an evidently Jewish family, 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. Before World War II he cultivated expressionist figuration and absorbed the spirit of the vanguards he saw in exhibitions organized by MoMA.
After the war he began to explore color field painting, gradually abandoning figurative references, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he began the personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous, show broad rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. They are blurred colors, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating somewhat 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, in the midst of a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would eventually take his own life.