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






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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.
Copyright-authorized print 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, so it remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed 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 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 did.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From an evidently Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove so many minds away.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II, he developed expressionist figuration and absorbed the spirit of the avant-garde 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 broad rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended in the canvas, evoking rather interesting mystical sensations.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution in 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 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.
Copyright-authorized print 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, so it remains in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.
The work will be carefully handled and packed 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 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 did.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From an evidently Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove so many minds away.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II, he developed expressionist figuration and absorbed the spirit of the avant-garde 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 broad rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended in the canvas, evoking rather interesting mystical sensations.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution in 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 take his own life.
