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





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Offset lithography print after Mark Rothko, 80 cm by 60 cm, produced in Germany in 2004, VG licensed print in excellent condition.
Description from the seller
Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” by Rothko created in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art cardboard 200g
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 work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked 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 one of the foremost 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. Of evidently Jewish descent, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove many minds to seek refuge.
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-gardes he saw in exhibitions organized by 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, large, show vast rectangular color fields with indistinct boundaries between them. The colors are blurry, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating quite interesting mystical sensations.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of 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 a 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” by Rothko created in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art cardboard 200g
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 work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked 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 one of the foremost 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. Of evidently Jewish descent, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove many minds to seek refuge.
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-gardes he saw in exhibitions organized by 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, large, show vast rectangular color fields with indistinct boundaries between them. The colors are blurry, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating quite interesting mystical sensations.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of 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 a series of works with black acrylic, he would ultimately take his own life.

