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





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Offset lithography reproduction after Mark Rothko of the work 'Maroon on Blue', 80 x 60 cm, published in 2004 by VG Bild-Kunst, in excellent condition.
Description from the seller
Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” a work created by Rothko in 1957,
Edited on thick Fine Art 200g cardstock
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 displayed, always stored in a professional art folder, so it remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. The shipment will be shipped with a tracking number.
The shipment will also include transportation 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 the leading figure of American abstraction. With his painting he sought to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many he succeeded.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From an evidently Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing 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-garde he saw in the exhibitions organized by the MoMA.
After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning all 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, enormous, show broad rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. They are blurred colors, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking mystic sensations quite intriguing.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of 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 end up taking his own life.
Seller's Story
Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” a work created by Rothko in 1957,
Edited on thick Fine Art 200g cardstock
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 displayed, always stored in a professional art folder, so it remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. The shipment will be shipped with a tracking number.
The shipment will also include transportation 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 the leading figure of American abstraction. With his painting he sought to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many he succeeded.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From an evidently Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing 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-garde he saw in the exhibitions organized by the MoMA.
After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning all 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, enormous, show broad rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. They are blurred colors, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking mystic sensations quite intriguing.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of 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 end up taking his own life.

