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






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Offset lithography reproduction after Mark Rothko, titled Maroon on Blue, 80 × 60 cm, produced in Germany in 2004, in excellent condition.
Description from the seller
Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art 200g card stock
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 therefore remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number.
The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the artwork with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.
(*) Mark Rothko was, along with Pollock, the foremost representative 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 evidently Jewish family origin, 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 vanguards he saw in exhibitions organized by the 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 large rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurry, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking quite interesting mystical sensations.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution in American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But by the late 1960s, in the midst of a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would ultimately take his own life.
Seller's Story
Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art 200g card stock
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 therefore remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number.
The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the artwork with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.
(*) Mark Rothko was, along with Pollock, the foremost representative 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 evidently Jewish family origin, 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 vanguards he saw in exhibitions organized by the 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 large rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurry, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking quite interesting mystical sensations.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution in American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes were notable. But by the late 1960s, in the midst of a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would ultimately take his own life.
