Mark Rothko (after) - Maroon on Blue - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - VG licensed print - 2004

Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue”, created by Rothko in 1957,
Edited on thick Fine Art 200g board
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004.
Print authorized 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 packaged in a reinforced cardboard box. The shipment will be tracked.

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, alongside Pollock, was one of the leading figures 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.
Mark Rothko was born in Russia. From a clearly Jewish family, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that sent many minds away.
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 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, monumental, show large rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurry, floating suspended in the canvas, evoking mystic sensations that are quite intriguing.
From there, Mark Rothko would become an institution of American art. Protected by Peggy Guggenheim, his successes would be notable. But in the late 1960s, in the midst of a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works in black acrylic, he would ultimately take his own life.