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

Offset Lithography after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” a work created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art card stock 200g
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004.
Print authorized with copyright by Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko.
Large Format.

*** LAST REMAINING COPIES ***

- 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 in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked 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 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 achieved it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. From an evidently Jewish family, 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. He cultivated expressionist figuration before World War II and absorbed the spirit of the vanguards he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions.
After the war he began to investigate color field painting, gradually abandoning all figurative reference and, in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, 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. The colors are blurred, 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 would be notable. But in the late 1960s, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would commit suicide.