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

Offset Lithograph after Mark Rothko (*)
Reproduction of the work “Maroon on Blue” created by Rothko in 1957,
Printed on Thick Fine Art 200g stiff paper
Published by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn in 2004.
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 stored in a professional art folder, thus 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 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 aimed to achieve an ambitious utopia: to express humanity’s most universal basic emotions. And for many, he achieved it.
Markus Rothkovitz was born in Russia. Of obviously Jewish heritage, he emigrated to Oregon in 1910, probably fleeing the antisemitism that drove many minds to escape.
He studied art in the 1920s, but considered himself self-taught. Before World War II he cultivated expressive figurativism and absorbed the spirit of the vanguards he saw in exhibitions organized by the MoMA.
After the war he began to investigate color field painting (painterly fields of color), gradually abandoning all figurative reference, and in the 1950s, with abstract expressionism already established, he began the personal abstraction that would define his painting from then on.
Rothko’s paintings, enormous, show wide rectangular fields of color with undefined boundaries between them. The colors are blurred, floating suspended on the canvas, evoking mystically interesting sensations.
From that point, 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 eventually commit suicide.