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





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Offset lithograph after Mark Rothko titled “Maroon on Blue”, 80 × 60 cm, in excellent condition, published in 2004 by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn under licensed copyright to Kate Rothko-Prizel and Christopher Rothko.
Description from the seller
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.
Authorized printing 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 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 one of the leading figures of American abstraction. With his painting he aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many he succeeded.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of 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 figurativism and absorbed the spirit of the avant-gardes he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions.
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 his personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous, show vast rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating intriguing 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, 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” created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on thick Fine Art 200g card stock
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004.
Authorized printing 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 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 one of the leading figures of American abstraction. With his painting he aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express the most basic universal emotions. And for many he succeeded.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of 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 figurativism and absorbed the spirit of the avant-gardes he saw in MoMA-organized exhibitions.
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 his personal abstraction that would define his painting ever since.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous, show vast rectangular color fields with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, stimulating intriguing 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, amid a depressive crisis, and after painting his series of works with black acrylic, he would end up taking his own life.

