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





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Description from the seller
Offset Lithograph after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” created by Rothko in 1957,
edited on thick Fine Art 200g cardboard
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, and is therefore in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. 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, together 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 achieved it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From a clearly Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that forced so many minds to escape.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressionist figuration and soaked up the spirit of the vanguards he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions.
After the war he began to investigate 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 from then on.
Rothko’s works, enormous, display broad rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. They are blurred colors, floating suspended in the canvas, evoking mystically intriguing 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 a series of works with black acrylic, he would ultimately commit suicide.
Seller's Story
Offset Lithograph after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” created by Rothko in 1957,
edited on thick Fine Art 200g cardboard
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, and is therefore in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. 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, together 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 achieved it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From a clearly Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that forced so many minds to escape.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressionist figuration and soaked up the spirit of the vanguards he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions.
After the war he began to investigate 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 from then on.
Rothko’s works, enormous, display broad rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. They are blurred colors, floating suspended in the canvas, evoking mystically intriguing 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 a series of works with black acrylic, he would ultimately commit suicide.
